Image Recognition
(March 6, 2023) – Last week, the Montana Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would limit facial recognition surveillance in the state. The legislation would ban warrantless facial recognition surveillance in Montana in most situations and would place general limits on the use of facial recognition technology by government agencies. SB397 includes an outright ban on “continuous facial surveillance” defined as “the generalized monitoring of public places or third party image sets using facial recognition technology for facial identification to match faces with a prepopulated list of face images. With facial recognition technology, police and other government officials have the capability to track individuals in real time. The passage of state laws and local ordinances banning and limiting facial recognition eliminates one avenue for gathering facial recognition data.