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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 anymore. This fall, the Georgetown Law School's Center on Privacy and Technology published findings that half of all American adults are in police facial recognition networks.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readWhen police need participants in lineups to help victims of crime identify suspects, they have to ask permission. Not anymore. This fall, the Georgetown Law School's Center on Privacy and Technology published findings that half of all American adults are in police facial recognition networks. We spoke with the Center's executive director Alvaro Bedoya.
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The full episode
1 of 7Talking Points: About 2016- 1:19Police facial recognition databases may include youYou’re reading this
- 7:54US aid is helping reduce gang violence in Honduras
- 14:42The secret history of cyber war
- 15:00Terror in Europe
- 23:55State Department hero reflects on the 'Mirror Test'
- 34:08How the Right went wrong
- 43:05Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about the history of the human genome