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posted by chromas on Friday November 01 2019, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-face-rings-a-bell dept.

The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system – and we're going to court to prove it, says ACLU

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Department of Justice (DoJ) in an effort to find out what the US federal government's systems and policies are around facial recognition.

Following a freedom-of-information request in January that Uncle Sam still has not responded to, the ACLU has demanded [PDF] the release of the TLA trio's guidelines and rules regarding what the union terms "face surveillance technology," as well as details of any contracts or pilot programs it has with private companies over the technology.

Specifically, the civil-rights warriors have filed suit in Massachusetts against the Feds, requesting the district court forces the agencies and department to cough up "public records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act."

https://www.aclu.org/cases/aclu-v-doj-fbi-dea


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    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Sunday November 03 2019, @01:00AM (#915177)

    Oh fuck, you fed your Gremlins AFTER MIDNIGHT didn't you?!?

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