When night fell, a clerk at a bustling 24-hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter.

111 years ago almost to the day, a murder was committed which ultimately led to the first criminal trial to use fingerprints as evidence. We've all since watched enough crime shows to understand that fingerprints are unique personal biometric attributes and to date, no two people have ever been found

The leaked data included information of a total of 49,19,668 people using Tamil Nadu government’s PDS.

The disastrous mishandling of Rohingya refugees’ data by UNHCR deserves an apology, and measures to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

A new class action has accused Northwestern University of violating Illinois' biometrics privacy law by using online proctoring to collect students' face scans and collect other biometric data without students' consent.

It's a far cry from the maximum $35B Facebook might have owed, but not nothing.

The students' objections to the stick-on 'BioButtons' ranged from concerns about privacy to religious complaints comparing the devices to the mark of the devil.

A new biometric scanner in Snell Library installed this semester lets students swipe their hands instead of their Husky cards. Some students appreciate the efficient process of entering Snell, while others are concerned about Northeastern keeping images of their fingerprints.

With criticism of facial recognition resulting in bans across the country, companies are looking to improve the technology. However, the New York Daily News recently found that Google's attempts to improve facial recognition resulted in questionable…

Biometric systems used by ICE to round up migrants and separate families didn’t come from nowhere. They’ve been built over decades by both parties.

Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database

MEP Matt Carthy wondered why the battery life on his laptop was running down so quickly…

Need to fool a 3D fingerprint sensor? Use a 3D printer.

Current techniques to protect biometric details, such as face recognition or fingerprints, from hacking are effective, but advances in AI are rendering these protections obsolete.

Forbes has added to the ever-growing pantheon of ways to trick biometrics by printing a 3D head and using it to break into Android phones.

Rage and tears followed the murder of Nia Wilson, an 18-year old Black woman from Oakland, who was killed while exiting a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train one Sunday evening in July. These were appropriate reactions in the wake of such a tragedy, especially from community members incensed by the seemingly relentless targeted killing of Black people across the nation by police and racist vigilantes. But there were inappropriate responses as well. Among the worst of these came from BART authorities that responded with a proposal for widely expanding transit surveillance. One BART policymaker went as far as to call for the widespread use of facial recognition technology. Let’s be clear: expanded surveillance and facial recognition technology are not the solution. Would these technologies have prevented Nia Wilson’s murder? No. Instead of preventing race-based hate crimes, expanded surveillance will just put more people of color at risk, adding insult to injury, salt to an open...

A network of smart devices attached to or implanted in bodies raises a host of legal and policy questions.

More than a century ago, a teenager named Abigail Roberson had her photo taken at a professional studio in upstate New York. The photo wasn’t particularly scandalous—Roberson is pictured from the shoulders up, looking away from the camera—but it achieved the 1890s version of virality and set off a legal debate about…

Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination