In November, voters in Bellingham, Washington, passed a ballot measure banning government use of face recognition technology. It added to a streak of such laws that started with San Francisco in ...

As George Floyd’s death sparked protests in cities across the country, six federal agencies turned to facial-recognition software in an effort to identify people in images of the civil unrest ...

Here's how it works. A face shot is submitted to a facial recognition system, which measures distinctive characteristics such as the width of nose and depth of eye sockets.