Given the vital role face recognition plays in human social interaction, variations in this ability hold inherent interest and potential consequence. Yet the science of such differences has long ...

Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than African American ones.

Code explorer Jane Manchun Wong has discovered a reference to a purported facial recognition system in Facebook's mobile app that would verify your identity.

More accurate (or less biased) face recognition will not solve the larger, systemic problems. Facial recognition is racist, from how it was built to how it is used. It expands the police’s ability to ...