A new report catalogues the sweeping scope and shoddy safeguards of U.S. law enforcement's facial recognition tools.
Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
Deployments of surveillance vans over five months resulted in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders
Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police (Published 2015)
Dozens of police departments have begun using facial recognition technology to pursue conventional criminal suspects like drug dealers and prostitutes.
Police face recognition misidentified 2,300 as potential criminals - Engadget
Ask critics of police face recognition why they're so skeptical and they'll likely cite unreliability as one factor. What if the technology flags an innocent person? Unfortunately, that caution appears to have been warranted to some degree. South Wales Police are facing a backlash after they released data showing that their face recognition trial at the 2017 Champions League final misidentified thousands as potential criminals. Out out of 2,470 initial matches, 2,297 were false positives -- about 92 percent.
Police use of Amazon’s face-recognition service draws privacy warnings
Cloud-based service can index millions of faces and recognize 100 people in an image.
FBI embracing facial recognition to “find bad guys”
Director wavered when asked if database would store drivers' license photos.
California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects
New emails reveal how a private technology company is working to change law enforcement as we know it
Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control, House committee hears
Database contains photos of half of US adults without consent, and algorithm is wrong nearly 15% of time and is more likely to misidentify black people
China bets on facial recognition in big drive for total surveillance
Facial recognition is the new hot tech topic in China. Banks, airports, hotels and even public toilets are all trying to verify people’s identities by analyzing their faces. But the police and security state have been the most enthusiastic about embracing this new technology.
Biometrics catches violent fugitive 25 years on the run
Like it or not, facial-recognition tech has become an everyday part of society.
UK police say 92% false positive facial recognition is no big deal
South Wales Police: "No facial recognition system is 100% accurate under all conditions."
Privacy laws lag behind as some Canadian police forces begin to use facial recognition technology | CBC News
Privacy advocates are calling on all levels of government to create specific regulations around police use of facial recognition technology.
The perpetual lineup: Half of US adults in a face-recognition database
In this virtual lineup, you're scanned despite not being suspected of a crime.
Turnbull denies new facial recognition measures amount to 'mass surveillance'
Prime minister plays down privacy implications of automated face-matching regime under anti-terrorism deal struck with states
Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition
Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."
Police fine pedestrian £90 over facial recognition camera row
Metropolitan Police officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a database of wanted criminals.
Opinion | We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. (Published 2020)
The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
