Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology Raises Privacy Concerns
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Miami police used facial recognition to identify and arrest a homeless man who refused to provide ID at the airport. Prosecutors dropped the charges due to lack of probable cause.
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Clearview AI's facial recognition database contains over 30 billion images scraped from social media and is used by police nearly 1 million times.
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Real time crime centers allow police to access public and private surveillance camera networks to identify people.
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Facial recognition raises privacy concerns when combined with proliferating surveillance cameras that can track people's activities.
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The technology is often advertised to solve serious crimes but is also used for minor issues like trespassing and shoplifting.