For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable criteria.
Didn’t facial recognition get some poor guy arrested and raped in prison and he was completely innocent of everything?
Considering how common rape is in American prisons and how often innocent people are getting locked up, that does not sound unlikely
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