In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.

A Google research scientist explains why she thinks the police shouldn’t use facial recognition software.

Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.

Commercial software is nearly flawless at telling the gender of white men, a study says, but not so for darker-skinned women.

Beijing hopes its social credit system will quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit too.

Smart technology can make it easier to keep tabs on your home when you’re on vacation, but it also makes it harder to really get away.

Joseph Simons, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, described a settlement with Google over children’s privacy violations on YouTube as “a significant victory” for parents.

The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the world.

The attack disrupted the district’s websites and remote learning programs, as well as its grading and email systems, officials said.

Dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such files.