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New Orleans police secretly used facial recognition on over 200 live camera feeds

New Orleans' police force secretly used continual facial recognition to seek out suspects for two years, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

An investigation by The Washington Post discovered that the city's police department was using facial recognition technology on a privately owned camera network to continually look for suspects. However, WaPo found that officers did not reveal their reliance on the technology in the paperwork for several arrests where facial recognition was used, and none of those cases were included in mandatory city council reports. Wessler added that the is the first known case in a major US city where police used AI-powered automated facial recognition to identify people in live camera feeds for the purpose of making immediate arrests.

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