Beijing Daxing International Airport has been incorporating facial recognition software more and more, and it’s being used to do everything from identifying...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reversed its plans for mandatory facial recognition scans of Americans arriving and departing the country,...
Biometric authentication is one of the hottest trends in the digital ID space. Users demand both ironclad security and seamless login experiences,...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to update a current law requiring non-U.S. citizens to be subject to facial recognition scans...
China has implemented a new policy requiring citizens who want new phone service to scan their faces to verify identities instead of...
Technology firms in China are framing facial recognition policies at the United Nations (UN), The Financial Times (FT) reported on Sunday (Dec....
Tencent, Xiaomi and Ant Financial are among the Chinese tech giants partnering with artificial intelligence (AI) firm SenseTime in an effort to...
Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological...
Facebook built a facial recognition app that was intended only for internal use, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat on Friday (Nov. 22). ...
Make sure to bring more than your appetite when you dine out in the 2020s, especially at a quick-service restaurant (QSR). You...
Customers at a popular Indian cafe chain are unhappy that the company is using facial recognition software to bill its customers, CNN...
Are you ready for the weekend? We sure are. But here at the PYMNTS Weekender, we want to make sure you didn’t...
U.S. consumers are turning to technology to place food orders, and restaurants are looking to enhance the digital ordering experience. At the same...
U.S. consumers are increasingly turning to digital technology to place food orders. A recent study found online food delivery orders increased nearly...
Facial recognition tech could give the old restaurant axiom “service with a smile” a whole new meaning, by allowing customers to reorder...
Digital identities are gaining popularity across industries as businesses, services and other operations increasingly move online. Consumers are normalizing the use of...
A class action lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that people in Illinois didn’t consent to have their photos used with the company’s facial...
Global payments solution SnapPay announced the rollout of facial recognition payment technology for North American merchants. SnapPay said the technology gives users...
Online retail giant Amazon says it will launch into new markets amid an uncertain sea of controversies and regulations, CNBC reported on...
As more nations mull tapping into facial recognition technology to bolster security, an expert at the World Economic Forum said governments should...
Facebook has announced it’s going to stop using its controversial Tag Suggestions feature, and facial recognition technology is going to be available...
AI startup Megvii Technology has filed for a public listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The Beijing-based company, known for its...
Emotions play a significant role in all human endeavors, and that certainly goes for payments and commerce. And even as those two...
The data protection regulator for the U.K. has opened an investigation into the use of facial recognition technology at property developer Argent’s...
Digital identification continues to make immense strides in implementation and uptake in the world’s economy, but it is not without vulnerabilities. More...
Google announced in a video tweet on Monday (July 29) that its upcoming Pixel 4 smartphone doesn’t need hands to operate it....
The Washington Post is reporting that as part of a milestone settlement against Facebook, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is going to...
How does a retailer really expect to know a customer these days, especially if that that customer is shopping inside a physical...
Apple continues to make progress with biometrics and facial recognition for device sign-in purposes. According to a report from 9to5Mac.com, “when you...
Alipay will soon add beauty filters to its facial-recognition payment systems all across China, according to reports. Chinese consumers are among the...
Through an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd program that offers years of shopping history for consumers, Bestore Co Ltd intends to connect technology...
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has revealed that photos of travelers coming into and out of the country were stolen...
Smart glasses company Vuzix has developed eyewear with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology that can recognize faces in a crowd, according to a...
Microsoft has reportedly removed from the internet a database of 10 million faces which it had been using to train facial recognition...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of congress say the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology isn’t private or accurate enough,...
California’s recent IoT security law, mandating minimum security requirements for connected devices, attempts to thwart fraudsters and other bad actors. But while...
Members of Congress supported a plan to draft legislation aimed at the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement on Wednesday...
At a meeting on Wednesday (May 22), Amazon Shareholders shot down two proposals to monitor and curb the eCommerce giant’s facial recognition...
Biometric authentication enables processes as simple as unlocking a smartphone and as complex as streamlining airport security checks. With that in mind,...
As 5G deployments start, retailers and other companies and organizations around the world are striving to find what works. One of the...
In an environment where lawmakers and civil liberties groups are scrutinizing facial recognition software, Amazon is facing pressure from shareholders: Investors will...
These are exciting times for biometrics, with the authentication method(s) moving into the mainstream. But a biometric backlash is underway — and,...
Officials in San Francisco voted Tuesday (May 14) to ban the use of facial recognition technology by city workers in an 8...
A popular photo app called Ever, which was ostensibly used for cloud storage of photos, has been using customer pictures to train...
A single data breach costs a business $3.86 million on average. The high risks and costs of breaches, says Tapodyuti Bose, Global...
The city of San Francisco moved a little closer to banning facial recognition software after adding amendments to the Stop Secret Surveillance...
A subway operator in Shenzhen, China is testing facial recognition software, powered by a 5G network, to pay for entry, according to...
National identification systems are moving behind physical documents. Several global markets are integrating biometric data — including facial recognition and fingerprints —...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the introduction of automated teller machines...
Go back a generation or two and imagine the construction of the Gateway Arch — the sleek, shiny monument to westward expansion that...