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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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday October 20 2016, @03:02AM
I'm pretty sure I'm in the cock and ass recognition databases as well.
False. Everybody knows that facial-recognition technology doesn't work with Blacks. [gizmodo.com]
Although I heard that some facial-recognition tech vendors are getting around that problem by flagging all black people as "wearing ski-masks," and thus tagging them as suspicious.