Image Recognition
“Last year, some argued overturning [the council’s] ban on Facial Recognition tech was ‘key’ to solving violent crime. In the remaining 13 cases, facial recognition provided a match in only five of them. “There have been no arrests of an individual matched by facial recognition per data from NOPD,” the report said. Others pointed to the facial recognition technology’s well-documented biases and inaccuracies. In November 2020, The Lens reported that despite years of denials, the city had in fact been utilizing facial recognition technology.