News & Commentary about Face Recognition Technology
![Face Recognition Technology image](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/news/news-by-issue-images/privacy-technology_600.png)
![People standing at a crosswalk with face recognition software boxes superimposed over their faces.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/02/WEB21-Face-Recognition-Crosswalk-Standard-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Feb 17, 2021
Biden Must Halt Face Recognition Technology to Advance Racial Equity
![Facial scan over black woman's face to assess identification.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/Microsoft-Face-Recognition-400x266.jpg)
Jun 10, 2020
Microsoft Says it Supports Racial Justice. Will it Refuse to Power Discriminatory Police Surveillance?
![A passenger using a facial recognition kiosk in the background with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer watching in the foreground.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/WEB20-Airport-Facial-Recognition-Kiosk-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Mar 12, 2020
The Government Has a Secret Plan to Track Everyone’s Faces at Airports. We’re Suing.
![A mockup image of how a computer scans a human face for facial recognition](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/web20-clearviewAIfacerecog-blogimage-wordpress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Feb 10, 2020
Hey Clearview, Your Misleading PR Campaign Doesn’t Make Your Face Surveillance Product Any Less Dystopian
![A passenger using a facial recognition kiosk in the background with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer watching in the foreground.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/WEB20-Airport-Facial-Recognition-Kiosk-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Feb 6, 2020
The Government's Nightmare Vision for Face Recognition at Airports and Beyond
![A CBP officer scanning a passport](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/12/WEB19-CBP-Biometric-Facial-RecognitionBlogImage-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Dec 5, 2019
A Border Officer Told Me I Couldn’t Opt Out of the Face Recognition Scan. They Were Wrong.
![A demonstrator wearing a bandana on their face](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/11/WEB19-Masked-Protester-BlogImage-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Nov 26, 2019
America's Mask Bans in the Age of Face Recognition Surveillance
![Facial recognition grid](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/10/WEB19-Public-Facial-Recognition-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Oct 31, 2019
The FBI is Tracking Our Faces in Secret. We’re Suing.
![Police body camera](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-police-body-cam-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Oct 11, 2019
California Just Blocked Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition
![A screen displaying Facebook's facial recognition technology](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-facebook-facial-recognition-ap-blogimage-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Aug 9, 2019
A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology