A Blog by Jonathan Low

 

Jun 4, 2020

Facial Recognition Is Newest Police Weapon Against Protesters

The use by police of facial recognition both to identify alleged lawbreakers and gather more data for future use is hardly surprising.

The question is whether this may actually lead to the unintended consequence of curbs on its application in the future. JL

Dave Gershgorn reports in OneZero:

Police and the FBI have asked for  images that can be used during protests. Because there are no federal or state laws that require transparency for use of facial recognition, there’s no way to know how the technology is being used. Hundreds of state and local police departments in the US have access to Clearview AI allowing them to run facial recognition searches against billions of photos scraped from social media. In some states police can search against drivers license photos. Companies have begun to make facial recognition that can identify people wearing a mask.
Because there are no federal or state laws that require transparency for government use of facial recognition technology, there’s no way to know how the technology is being used
“I wouldn’t be surprised if those technologies were used on those crowdsourced contributions.”

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