Microsoft (MSFT) sent one of its top executives to Washington with an unusual request: To ask the government to regulate the use of the company’s automated facial-recognition software. In fact, ...

Microsoft on Friday became the first tech giant to join a growing call for regulations to limit the use of facial recognition technology. In a lengthy blog post about the potential uses and abuses of ...

Facial recognition has been around for a while, with Windows Hello employing the tech so you can log into a Windows 11 device by simply looking at your webcam. This technology also exists in ...

Long ago, I had an Android phone with an early facial recognition sign-in feature… and someone could unlock my phone just by holding up a photo of me. Yeah, it was bad. Fast forward to 2025 and we ...

Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company's fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around ...

Microsoft is in the vanguard of the AI revolution thanks to its financial and business ties to OpenAI, well known for ChatGPT. But despite its leading position, and its relentless push to have ...

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With AI becoming more powerful, seemingly by the day, many worry that it could be used by a government agency to keep track of them. Well, at least one AI facial recognition tool has been banned for ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Face Check in Microsoft Entra Verified ID, providing a means for organizations to verify the identities of individuals. Face Check is described by Microsoft ...

The surprise here is not that software development teams aren't terribly diverse in many companies, but that development/engineering teams didn't immediately ...