If you're worried that advanced AI-powered facial recognition systems will allow third parties to easily identify you by using publicly accessible photos of yourself, you can use a free app called ...

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Wegmans is using facial recognition software in a small number of stores in communities with elevated risk. The technology is used to identify individuals who have been previously flagged for ...

As the grocery chain faces scrutiny in New York for storing customers’ biometric data, Wegmans won’t say if any stores in Maryland are in the “small fraction” of locations where it has deployed ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Wegmans says it is using facial recognition technology in “a small fraction of [their] stores,” including in New York City, for safety reasons. Retinal scans and voice prints ...

Wegmans is using facial recognition cameras to “help identify individuals who pose a risk to our people, customers, or operation” in a small number of its stores, the grocery chain said in a statement ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Walking into a Wegmans store, customers may be unaware that their faces could be scanned and entered into a security system, according to the Rochester-based supermarket chain.

SwitchBot introduced its SwitchBot Lock Vision Series of smart deadbolts at CES today. The new locks use facial recognition as a primary unlock method, which the company positions as a more foolproof ...

A spokesperson for Wegmans defended the use of facial recognition at its Brooklyn and Manhattan locations, saying the popular supermarket chain only deploys the technology on a “case-by-case basis” at ...

Amazon's Ring video doorbells are getting a major artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade, and it is already stirring controversy. The company has started rolling out a new feature called Familiar Faces ...

“To government ministers and police chiefs, it is the biggest investigative breakthrough since DNA screening,” said Mario Ledwith in The Times. “To privacy campaigners, it is ‘turning the country into ...

Dozens of people filled a room in Milwaukee’s courthouse complex Tuesday morning, listening as representatives from the sheriff’s office pushed for adopting facial recognition technology and answered ...