Piecing together the responses to over 100 Freedom of Information Act requests and dozens of interviews, researchers found that more than half of American adults were enrolled in a face recognition network searchable by law enforcement. Across the country, state and local police departments are building their own face recognition systems, many of them more advanced than the FBI’s. We know very little about these systems. We don’t know how they impact privacy and civil liberties. We don’t know how they address accuracy problems. And we don’t know how any of these systems—local, state, or federal—affect racial and ethnic minorities.
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