Calhoun County Jail in Alabama is testing facial recognition technology that could revolutionize how criminals are identified by local law enforcement.
New biometric software will allow the officers to confirm an inmate’s identity just by having him or her pass in front of a camera, which takes 3-D snapshots of the individual’s face, each consisting of 40,000 data points, according to an article from Government Technology. Those images are then compared against a database to register a match.