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A new report claims that half of all American adults have their images stored on law enforcement databases.
The report, titled "The Perpetual Lineup," from the Center on Privacy and Technology at the Georgetown Law Center released Tuesday criticizes what the authors' call the unchecked use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.
The authors say the technology has led to the widespread surveillance of innocent individuals and worsened police racial profiling of African-Americans.
Alvaro Bedoya, a co-author of the report told reporters on a call Tuesday that in the past, law enforcement "never created a database that's populated of law abiding people." That's changed because of face recognition, he said.
"This contrasts with most people not being in fingerprint or DNA law enforcement records," Bedoya explained.
The 150-page report called law enforcement's use of face recognition technology unprecedented. Previously, biometric data of fingerprints and DNA came from criminal arrests and investigations. But the FBI now has a face-image database of non-criminals thanks to searches of 16 state's driver's license records.
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The report calls for new curbs on law enforcement's use of the technology.
Source: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/301629-half-of-americans-in-face-recognition-databases-report
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday October 20 2016, @12:28AM
I don't know for a fact, but I'll almost guarantee that here in NJ, they're doing this with drivers license photos.
The reason I say that is that starting a few years ago, they started requiring the pictures to be taken looking straight at the camera, a neutral expression (no smile) and no glasses even for someone like me who must wear glasses to drive. Never mind the picture barely looks like me without the glasses. Not much of a mystery what that's all about. Am I supposed to feel "safer"?
While I know driving is considered a "privilege" and not a right (though it's hard to imagine living without it in practice)...guess what...NOT having by face searched unless there's probable cause IS a right last time I fucking checked.