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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 19 2016, @10:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-they-worried-about-the-UK-surveillance dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Thursday October 20 2016, @02:42AM

    by Zz9zZ (1348) on Thursday October 20 2016, @02:42AM (#416446)

    I think it would be good for people to realize "the government" is actually a very small percentage of the population... Its the the aristocracy, except people unwittingly give up their freedoms based on "the law". Now I have respect for the law, there is much good that has come of it, but it is still something created by humans. Every law has the potential for abuse, and more and more laws are outright evil (designed to be abusive).

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