A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. If it fails, it'll be a blow to a once-promising movement. Just four years ago, the ...

A Boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. A month later, he discovered he was the star of the students’ viral video. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill covers the intersection of privacy and ...

A national effort to ban police use of face recognition is facing a sobering reality: compromise This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, ...

Face recognition technology in the hands of police is dangerous. Police departments across the country frequently use the technology to try to identify images of unknown suspects by comparing them to ...