Pauls' Revere
04-26-2018, 10:41 PM
https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/Facial-recognition-may-be-coming-to-a-police-body-12866541.php
Face recognition has long had major appeal for law enforcement and government surveillance, and recent advances in AI development and declining camera and hardware costs have spurred developers to suggest it could be applied for broader use. Roughly 117 million American adults, or about half the country, can be found in the vast facial-recognition databases used by local, state and federal law enforcement, Georgetown Law School researchers estimated in 2016.
"Real-time face recognition would chill the constitutional freedoms of speech and association, especially at political protests," the letter from the dissenting groups states. It "could also prime officers to perceive individuals as more dangerous than they really are and to use more force than the situation requires. No policy or safeguard can mitigate these risks sufficiently well for real-time face recognition ever to be marketable."
- B.S., policy will be changed to adjust for the need for these devices.
Face recognition has long had major appeal for law enforcement and government surveillance, and recent advances in AI development and declining camera and hardware costs have spurred developers to suggest it could be applied for broader use. Roughly 117 million American adults, or about half the country, can be found in the vast facial-recognition databases used by local, state and federal law enforcement, Georgetown Law School researchers estimated in 2016.
"Real-time face recognition would chill the constitutional freedoms of speech and association, especially at political protests," the letter from the dissenting groups states. It "could also prime officers to perceive individuals as more dangerous than they really are and to use more force than the situation requires. No policy or safeguard can mitigate these risks sufficiently well for real-time face recognition ever to be marketable."
- B.S., policy will be changed to adjust for the need for these devices.