While facial recognition technology has been used to enhance security — for example, to spot known terrorists in crowds — it’s now poised to become the next big thing for personalized marketing and smart phones.
A retirement community in Pasadena is the first facility in Texas to install a high tech security system that's right out of Science-Fiction. It uses facial recognition and biometrics to identify residents and employees, and it remembers the faces and voices of outsiders coming and going from the complex.