Public disclosures about U.S. government surveillance threaten the ability of police to use powerful new technologies such as drones and mobile license plate readers.
The Justice Network's facial recognition system now allows about 500 law enforcement personnel in Pennsylvania to access facial recognition databases from both the criminal justice system and the Department of Transportation.
Local and Ohio state law enforcement have used facial recognition software several thousand times since June to match images of possible suspects and victims to pictures on Ohio drivers’ licenses, the state’s attorney general said Monday, The Associated Press reports.
The U.S. government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that can pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to an article from the Boston Globe.
Use of facial recognition technology on popular social networking site Facebook, especially in photo tagging, has raised privacy concerns in Germany, where users must be allowed to give their explicit consent for such potentially privacy-encroaching applications.
Calhoun County Jail in Alabama is testing facial recognition technology that could revolutionize how criminals are identified by local law enforcement.
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