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Police facial recognition databases may include you
When police need participants in lineups to help victims of crime identify suspects, they have to ask permission. Not any more. Now, with facial recognition technology, they don’t have to ask. Pictures of almost half of all American adults are now in their files. That could mean you. Photo courtesy of Gene Hunt.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readWhen police need participants in lineups to help victims of crime identify suspects, they have to ask permission. Not any more. Now, with facial recognition technology, they don’t have to ask. Pictures of almost half of all American adults are now in their files. That could mean you.
Photo courtesy of Gene Hunt.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
KCRW Staff
KCRW Staff
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Alvaro Bedoya
Georgetown Law School
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