Work on legislation to allow for facial recognition technology (FRT) is “well advanced” and will be introduced during the lifetime of the Government, Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has said.

Birgit Schippers, a visiting researcher at the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace at Queen’s University Belfast, explains the worrying implications of facial recognition technology.

Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has opened an EU-wide investigation into whether Ryanair’s use of facial-recognition technology to verify the identity of customers booking through third-party ...