Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces. You’re Probably in It | WIRED

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Cops have a database of 117M faces. You’re probably in it

A new report catalogues the sweeping scope and shoddy safeguards of U.S. law enforcement’s facial recognition tools.

via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/cops-database-117m-faces-youre-probably/

Currently the report finds that at least a quarter of all local and state police departments have access to a facial recognition database—either their own or another agency’s—and law enforcement in more than half of all states can search against the trove of photos stored for IDs like drivers’ licenses

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