Image Recognition
New documents reveal that the FBI has been testing artificially intelligent (AI) facial recognition software on Americans for almost a decade. The internal documents reveal that U.S. federal agencies wanted to develop “truly unconstrained” facial recognition tools that could be used in subway and public street cameras, mobile drones, and police body cameras. The research program, which is code-named “Janus,” would allow the U.S. government to identify and track millions of people at a time. In 2019, ACLU sued the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Drug Enforcement Administration for records detailing their use of facial-recognition software, arguing that the agencies have secretly implemented an “unprecedented” nationwide surveillance technology that threatens Americans’ privacy and civil rights. The continued proliferation of surveillance tools like facial recognition technologies in our society is deeply disturbing,” Democrat Senator Edward J. Markey tells The Washington Post.