Los Angeles Police Just Banned The Use Of Commercial Facial Recognition

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The country’s third-largest police department notified employees of the ban after BuzzFeed News showed that its officers were using Clearview AI, a facial recognition platform that has taken data from Facebook and other social media platforms.

Documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News showed that more than 25 LAPD employees ran nearly 475 searches with Clearview AI over a three-month period beginning at the end of 2019. Following a BuzzFeed News inquiry, McMahon, who runs the department’s IT division determined that a small group of “investigators” had been using Clearview.

“The LAPD had a trial of Clearview AI as have many other law enforcement agencies around the country,” Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday. As a department, the LAPD authorizes the use of a system that compares images of faces called the Los Angeles County Regional Identification System , which relies on more than 8,275,000 booking photos and mugshots and does not incorporate images from social media or the web. LACRIS runs on a software calledOnly a fraction of the LAPD’s force — 325 officers out of about 10,000 — are permitted to use the service, Frank said.

 

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why have the police if they can not do anything

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