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Detroit Police Wrongfully Arrested Another Black Man Falsely Identified by Face Recognition
For more than a year, people opposed to giving police access to face recognition technology have pointed to criminal cases such as that of Willie Lynch. A Florida appellate court ruled last year that Lynch, a Jacksonville man convicted of selling drugs worth $US50 ($72) to an undercover agent, had no right to view the…
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The ACLU Is Taking The U.S. Government To Court Over Face Recognition Surveillance
The ACLU and its Massachusetts chapter are suing the U.S. government for more information about how it uses facial recognition with regard to surveillance.
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Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement
Following employee protests at Google and Microsoft over government contracts, workers at Amazon are circulating an internal letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to stop selling the company’s Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement and to boot the data-mining firm Palantir from its cloud services.
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Following ‘Faked’ Footage Scandal, Baltimore Moves To Restrict Public Access To Body Cam Footage
Two members of Baltimore’s County Council have introduced a new resolution to tighten public access to body camera footage. The measure, introduced by Republican councilmen Todd Crandell and Wade Kach, comes after dozens of criminal cases were dropped in Baltimore following the release of camera footage that seemingly uncovered officer misconduct.