Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable criteria.

  • RichSPK@lemux.minnix.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I can’t follow your reasoning. What if they picked a person at random and it was actually the perpetrator, so it actually worked in a best case scenario?