Vallejo police secretly tested ‘dystopian’ facial recognition tool
13 April 2021
openvallejo.org
13 April 2021
Members of the Vallejo Police Department secretly used facial recognition technology developed by Clearview AI, a company embroiled in public controversy for allegedly violating personal privacy laws in several U.S. states and foreign countries, according to a search records database published in connection with a year-long investigation by BuzzFeed News. The Vallejo Police Department was among more than 1,800 public entities across the country, many of them law enforcement agencies, whose employees used free trials of Clearview’s facial recognition service to run largely-unregulated searches on suspects and test subjects alike, BuzzFeed reported. Some agencies rejected Clearview AI’s software after just ...
Vallejo police secretly tested ‘dystopian’ facial recognition tool
Vallejo police tested a facial recognition system that is the subject of numerous lawsuits and government investigations, according to search data obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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