Facial Recognition

Can someone snap a photo of me in the street and use it to identify me?

Oct 2, 2016 Daniela Bowker

With facial recognition technology you can take pictures of people in the street, run them through publicly available photographs online, and get a match. You…



Facial recognition systems can identify you even if your face is pixelated

Sep 13, 2016 John Aldred

Well, this could be quite the problem for privacy advocates everywhere. In locations such the UK, it could cause even cause legal issues for things like the Data…



Hackers can now use social media photos to bypass face detection security

Aug 21, 2016 Udi Tirosh

The internet is slowly (and painfully) discovering that security is a hard mistress. I mean fingerprints have been hacked, and passwords have not been delivering for…



Russian app lets you shoot photos of strangers and identify them online

May 20, 2016 John Aldred

As if the facial recognition news coming out of Russia wasn’t creepy enough already, it’s now available in App form to users of popular Russian…