At least 25% of all US security forces have access to and actively use facial recognition technology. For all participants in recent protests and pogroms, this fact can have far-reaching consequences.
Writes about this edition “The Guardian”.
“We know that in the United States, at least one in four law enforcement agencies can use facial recognition technology – one of the most dangerous surveillance tools in terms of privacy – without much oversight,” the publication said.
Today, it is reliably known that police departments throughout the country actively used any method of collecting materials for this technology. As the newspaper notes, both special CCTV cameras and military-grade drones were used.
Despite the fact that law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have been regularly criticized for using facial recognition technology, in New York alone over the past year, the police used the system 8 thousand times over the past year to replenish the so-called group database, which has already been entered about 42 thousand inhabitants of the city.
“The police could potentially retaliate against protesters by adding their names to databases and making them stand out for unwarranted, subsequent harassment and unrelated charges such as minor traffic violations,” explains The Guardian.