The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet only 5 percent of the 200 agents with ...

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Though it almost certainly won’t work, it is a telling sign of where the field is heading A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera footage. No obvious suspects or motives.

Tech companies and police forces would like us to believe that there is nothing we can do to stop harmful surveillance technologies like face recognition. We reject that narrative. Across the country, ...