New facial recognition technology may be used to target returning citizens. “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” warns the Brookings Institute in a TechTank blog by Nila Bala and Lars Trautman. Most recent news stories focus on the facial recognition technology’s mistakes. For example, the ACLU conducted a test of Amazon’s new technology “Rekognition,” and the software misidentified 28 members of Congress as having a previous criminal record. The Brookings Institute said privacy rights activists claim that in the near future … [Read more...] about Facial recognition technology poses privacy issues
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Technology makes your smart phone a snitch
A tech-tidal wave is hitting the criminal justice system, transforming faces into license plates and your smart phone into a snitch. These new technologies allow criminal-justice systems unparalleled surveillance capacity of vast amounts of data. The Economist magazine anticipates the future in the technology report “Justice Data Detectives.” DATA FOR DETECTIVES Technology has changed the relationship between information and crime in two ways: people create massive amounts of data and current laws have not kept pace with this … [Read more...] about Technology makes your smart phone a snitch