Image Recognition
New documents revealed by the ACLU and shared with Gizmodo show the lengths FBI and Pentagon officials went to develop “truly unconstrained” facial recognition capable of being deployed in public street cameras, mobile drones, and cops’ body cameras. Meg Foster, a Justice Fellow at Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology told Gizmodo the fact the program has ended provides little comfort. To date, at least 16 municipalities, including San Francisco Boston, and Oakland already passed laws and ordinances on facial recognition use by law enforcement or in the public. Private tech giants Like Amazon and Microsoft have banned police use of facial their facial recognition tech, though loopholes may exist for some federal agencies. We need to enact comprehensive facial recognition bans today.”