Mobile Fortify tech being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash ...

ORLEANS POLICE CATCH FUGITIVES, STOP CRIME TRACK AND TERROR SUSPECTS IN REAL TIME. BUT TODAY, THAT ALERT SYSTEM IS SILENT TO NOPD. CASSIE SCHERM INVESTIGATES WHY IT WAS PAUSED AND WHAT THE CITY MAY BE ...

While New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago have all received significant attention when it comes to police use of surveillance technologies, the small city of New Orleans has for years been the ...

MUCH FOR THAT. AND AGAIN, EARLIER WHEN I WENT OUT TO THE FRENCH QUARTER TO TALK TO SOME WITNESSES, GINA, TALKING ABOUT THIS FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY FROM PROJECT NOLA THAT WAS ABLE TO RECOGNIZE ...

The Department of Justice has disclosed that the FBI is in the “initiation” phase of using Amazon Rekognition, an image and video analysis software that has sparked controversy for its facial ...

Five of the 10 inmates who escaped have been recaptured. During the ongoing massive manhunt for 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail last week, authorities say the use of facial recognition ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a smartphone app to identify people based on an image of their fingerprints or face, 404 Media reported Thursday, based on a review of internal ICE ...

(TNS) — A powerful tool for catching criminals in New Orleans isn't being used these days by local police. But after the New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street and last month's jailbreak by 10 ...

Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.