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.
15 points
What’s scary here is the lack of training/understanding on the investigation side… This is just ignorance.
the family deserves to know that we tried everything
Like, have you tried praying? We don’t have any data, so it may be effective.
5 points
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802370/
Results were mixed.
