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Milwaukee Police Propose Trading Millions of Mugshots for Free Facial Recognition Access
The proposal raises serious privacy and ethical questions.
In Milwaukee, police are now considering an almost cartoonishly evil deal: Trade 2.5 million mugshots to a private company in exchange for free access to facial recognition software. With this deal, the department would receive two free search licenses from Biometrica, a software firm that already works with law enforcement agencies in the United States, in exchange for mugshots and jail records spanning decades. In Scott’s eyes, “The safest thing to do would be to not go forward with this deal and for the Milwaukee police to refrain from using the technology, particularly when there are no laws in place to strictly limit its use and provide meaningful safeguards.”
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