Should Police be able to Use Facial Recognition Technology?

[thomhartmann]

You are being tracked by video surveillance and by your cell-phone. ‘They’ know where you are pretty much all the time.

Facial recognition surveillance from CCTV cameras can identify you as you walk from place to place. The technology is spreading very quickly, and law enforcement agencies are buying equipment.

Currently, facial recognition software is unreliable and means that the wrong person is arrested by the authorities, because the algorithm made a mistake.

Evan Greer from ‘Fight for the Future’ talked with Thom and their recently launched campaign to stop all forms of facial recognition.

Facial Recognition Technology is being used by law enforcement, including ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) to find people

and its not always accurate, leading to false arrests as well as constitutional and privacy concerns

Fight for the Future is leading the fight against the use of facial recognition technology and other biometrics from being used by law enforcement

Evan Greer, Activist and musician takes a break from her tour to talk about the dangerous implications of law enforcement using facial recognition technology

Do you think law enforcement should be banned from using facial recognition technology?

[Calculating]

1. Ban it

1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a damn instruction manual. Just say no to expanded surveillance and the police state.

[trev]

2. London is full of this stuff.

Never made me feel safer. In fact, I found it deeply disturbing.

[RockRaven]

7. Especially since 81% of made matches (in a recent Met Police data set) are wrong...

And in the US where any kind of contact with police is a potentially fatal incident, falsely identifying four innocent people for each alleged criminal correctly identified would get a LOT of entirely innocent citizens killed.

[LakeArenal]

3. Soon they will require bar codes on our neck

[alwaysinasnit]

4. After this it will be iris scanning. They are already collecting DNA.

[ReformedGOPer]

5. I was uploading pictures to Facebook, and

it kept asking me if I wanted to tag my sister, using her name. Her name was no where in the album at all. Creepy.

[hlthe2b]

6. I find it distressing that anyone could take photos of you

in even a workplace or social setting, tag it and post it. Those who are stalked must find it beyond frightening.

[JCMach1]

8. Think again, Chinese have been busy perfecting

The tech to repress the Uighurs...

Outside the prison walls there is also a mass experiment in population control: authorities use facial recognition technologies, spyware and other high tech means to instill fear in Uighurs... https://www.undispatch.com/a-secretly-filmed-documentary-exposes-a-dystopian-nightmare-for-uighur-muslims-in-china/

[Igel]

9. Depends what they mean by "facial recognition technology."

Is it somebody using a mug shot run against DMV databases?

Is it somebody using CCTV images to follow somebody?

Two entirely different kinds of things. The first, sure. The second, no.

People operate at the level of words, not referent, and form, not substance.