Here's how it works. A face shot is submitted to a facial recognition system, which measures distinctive characteristics such as the width of nose and depth of eye sockets.

State officials currently use facial-recognition software that pulls photos from open sources like news stories and public social-media accounts.

Outside of Citi Field in Queens, New York, a small group of protesters gathered Wednesday to push back on the growing use of facial recognition scanning. A group of eight people with the nonprofit ...

Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness, an indoor amusement park east of Iran’s capital, Tehran. After a photo of her without a hijab circulated on social ...