Government use of facial recognition tech is growing around the world, despite being “error-prone,” warns the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation in an emailed statement to ...

Even when police heed warnings to take additional investigative steps, they exacerbate the unreliability of face recognition results.

Gaze direction, blinking, and lip compression are fairly easy to detect too. [Fletcher] also threw in the FER library for facial expression recognition, to get an idea of the subject’s mood.