A massive face recognition database being built by the FBI – which could contain up to 52 million images by 2015 – is a “real threat to privacy for all Americans,” a digital civil liberties group says ...

Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice, accusing them of ignoring its repeated requests for more ...

The story of how the FBI finally tracked down notorious fugitive Lynn Cozart, using its brand-new, $1 billion facial recognition system, seems tailor-made to disarm even the staunchest of skeptics.

WASHINGTON (CN) - A government watchdog that won records on the FBI's massive biometric-identification database is entitled to attorneys' fees, a federal judge ruled ...

The next-generation database will contain as many as 52 million facial images, including millions taken for non-criminal investigations. By the end of next year, the FBI's Next Generation ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is building a massive facial recognition database that could contain as many as 52,000,000 face images by 2015, documents obtained by the non-profit Electronic ...

The FBI proposal to keep its massive biometric database private is opposed by privacy activists who are demanding more time to review the request. Civil liberties and privacy groups are petitioning ...