Name: Why You’re in a Police Lineup, Right Now | NYT Opinion
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We’re all getting comfortable with face-recognition--

unlocking our phones, skipping airport lines

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and how it is being used without us realizing.

My job is to research the use of face-recognition

make recommendations around the use of the technology.

Right now, most Americans are in a perpetual police lineup,

your face is turned into a face print, a unique series

of numbers that a face-recognition system can read

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

And it also kind of finds that needle in a haystack.”

“Photos are called from social media images, driver's

I haven‘t done anything wrong, so I've got nothing to hide.”

But wouldn‘t you object to police secretly

searching your apartment every once in a while,

of face-recognition technology that worry me the most.

face recognition violates our right to due process.

In New York, police were looking for a suspect who‘d

who was arrested and charged, that there were over 200

other possible matches or that a face-recognition

That information is crucial to mount a defense

We pride ourselves in this country for due process.

But for thousands of people across the country,

face-recognition was used to help convict them.

Maybe the subject is squinting or they‘re

In such cases, the algorithm has trouble finding anyone

in putting Woody Harrelson‘s photo, when

one detective thought the surveillance camera

picture of the thief resembled the actor.

This may sometimes work, but the bottom line

is if you search for the suspect against explicitly

Very simply put, some of these algorithms

think all black people look more alike than white people.

found that they were using face-recognition between 1½ and 2½ times more

If we don‘t implement legal restrictions

looks like a Chinese-style surveillance state,

Congress must first implement a national moratorium

Congress can then work to develop legal restrictions,

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Why You’re in a Police Lineup, Right Now | NYT Opinion

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