A report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) details how federal agencies currently use, and plan to expand their use of, facial recognition systems. 

The Port of Seattle Commission has voted to ban the use of biometric technology for surveillance and security purposes by government and law enforcement on all its properties, which include the downtown port and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Amazon is bringing its palm-scanning payment system to one Whole Foods store in Seattle, with plans to expand quickly.

Virginia lawmakers unanimously approved a bill HB2031 that would restrict facial recognition technology for local law enforcement.

If proposals in the French Senate come to fruition, the country could become one of the first in the world to make sweeping laws against the use of biometric technology, excepting certain stringent security-based cases.

Facial biometric recognition works well on clear images with a good view of the face, but much additional data is often discarded due to the fact that the face, or the full face, is not clearly visible. The discarded data contains “soft” biometrics, such as height, gait and other features, such as ears.

There is potentially more information for biometrics-based identity recognition in images of people than the face alone, according to a new study from the journal of Psychological Science by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST).

The 5-4 majority agreed that taking a DNA cheek swab is akin to fingerprinting or photographing, but the dissenting justices saw it as a major change in police powers.

The Navy is testing a new generation of military binoculars that can scan faces and identify suspects from 650 feet away.

The pills would be able to transmit information on internal body temperature, perspiration and heart rates, and hopefully provide enough data to save more firefighters' lives.