A Bengaluru techie has built an AI-powered device to deter public smoking by detecting smokers in real time and playing audio ...

Turns out the factory of the future doesn't just need a software update... it needs a crash mat. Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics says it will ship up to 20,000 humanoid robots in ...

Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am not a criminal’ A man was ordered to leave a supermarket in London after staff misidentified him ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers ...

Civil liberty advocates and some lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the privacy risks of federal agents using surveillance toolkits during immigration enforcement operations. Using facial recognition ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general is investigating the use of facial recognition and the collection of citizens’ personal data following a flood of concerns about how ICE agents ...

Editor’s note: The above video is from a related story that KXAN reported in April 2025. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department has released its latest report of instances in which it used ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

The hardware retail chain won its bid with the Administrative Review Tribunal to overturn a 2024 ruling that found Bunnings breached customers’ privacy by scanning their faces. It was found that ...

Bunnings has successfully overturned a decision by the privacy commissioner that found the hardware retailer breached the privacy of thousands of customers by trialling facial recognition technology ...

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But, the Administrative Review Tribunal ruled the Wesfarmers-owned chain failed to properly inform customers about use of the technology between November 2018 and November 2021 in up to 62 stores.