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Unlawful use of facial recognition by police erodes public trust in biometrics
The NYPD arrested a protestor with the help of Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology (FRT), skirting a policy that puts strict limits on its use.
Zuhdi Ahmed, a 21-year-old pre-med student at the City University of New York (CUNY), was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor of second degree aggravated harassment. Another instance of sloppy handling of FRT by police comes from Cleveland, where next month, the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a murder case that Cleveland.com says could set a precedent for how law enforcement uses facial recognition when investigating crimes. But with every instance in which police do not have an airtight legal justification for using FRT, the scale tips a little more toward a society that thinks facial recognition is a tool for institutional control – and keeps getting proven right.
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