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.
This stuff scares me.with all the sneaky ass companies hoarding DNA, it becomes too easy to frame someone. This kind of shit doesn’t help either.
What’s scary here is the lack of training/understanding on the investigation side… This is just ignorance.
Like, have you tried praying? We don’t have any data, so it may be effective.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802370/
Results were mixed.