what is your attention? is it is a year, visitor next flight if you don t five for five years? does it go way? the second question is, who was a shared? with two other government agencies have the ability to access this? do you know those agencies are. for, instance in the nypd we have all sorts of face recognition tools, we have a crime in progress, we have a good picture, given that against what? we ran against mugshots? and people who are already in our fires. but not against the state dmv drivers license. you really have to be someone you know to get compared. those kinds of parameters are focusing on right. now and we give our facial recognition to apple iphone when we opt in. we give it to tsa tsa clay. are we give it to the line faster. we give it away to a lot of places. we just need to know, what are the rules about this picture. for a decision. but you have a picture up in
they re looking to identify and send it over to a state dmv official and one of more than 20 states probably, and start scrubbing through all of those driver s license photos and hopefully find a potential match. and, yeah, they re bipartisan anxiety, which is rare, obviously, in washington, over this surveillance technology which is one of the sort of more powerful surveillance technologies of the 21st centuries. it s leading to people being arrest and reshaping how police and agents do their work. bennie raised some concern as well about the acc race sthif technology, especially involving people of color. so the data right now is that women and dark-skinned people are misidentified more than anybody else. there are demographic effects that affect age, so significant
this is about dhs using dmv driver s license databases. many of our photos, and using it as a facial recognition gold mine. neither congress nor state legislatures ever authorized such a system. and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are looking for appearances. i m joined now by technology reporter from the washington post drew harwell. he s been following it from the outset. his headline, this draws lawmakers anger. drew, this is one of the few issues of the day right now that s uniting both democrats and republicans on the hill. they have voiced displeasure, shall we say, with this facial recognition calling it troubling, done in the shadows, fearful of getting out of control. walk us through walk us through how this all works. walk us through how we got here. yeah. how we ve seen it work is that an fbi agent or an i.c.e. agent can take a photo of somebody