Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes ...

Google could be about to significantly increase its sharing of facial recognition data.

You’re probably already familiar with face recognition technology through security surveillance or Facebook photo tagging, but the next person you see wearing Google Glass may well be using it ...

Google is not building a separate facial recognition application, but you can expect to see it as a Google Goggles feature. How soon is anyone's guess, as privacy details need to be worked out.

Google just bought a high-tech face recognition unit called Pitt Patt. Built into Google products, it could change everything about the web. Yes, everything.

Google says it won’t offer face recognition through its cloud APIs—that is, until it can come up with policies to prevent misuses of the technology, it said in a blog post today. Asia specific ...

Google countered just last week, proclaiming that it would forbid all official facial recognition apps. Still, the search giant seems to acknowledge that unofficial apps are all but inevitable.

Neven heads Google's image-recognition development department, the expertise of which, it was claimed, could be rolled into either the existing Google Image Search or a new app altogether.

Google has just acquired facial recognition software company PittPatt (Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition), according to an announcement on the startup's site. PittPatt, a project spawned from ...