Security News > 2020 > August > Facial recognition – another setback for law enforcement

So far this year, the use of facial recognition by law enforcement has been successfully challenged by courts and legislatures on both sides of the Atlantic.

Unconstrained use of facial recognition services by state and local government agencies poses broad social ramifications that should be considered and addressed.

Accordingly, legislation is required to establish safeguards that will allow state and local government agencies to use facial recognition services in a manner that benefits society while prohibiting uses that threaten our democratic freedoms and put our civil liberties at risk.

Interestingly, the court rejected what you might think of as the core of Bridges' objections - which are the "Gut feeling" objections that many people have against facial recognition in general - namely that AFR Locate interfered with the right to privacy, no matter how objectively it might be programmed.

Facial recognition is OK in principle and may have significant benefits in detecting criminals at large and identifying vulnerable people.

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