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WE MEET AGAIN It s the first day of March, the month where the pandemic upended everything last year. And in some ways it feels like that month never quite ended.
How One State Managed to Actually Write Rules on Facial Recognition
Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
“One of my concerns was that we would wake up one day in a world resembling that depicted in the Philip K. Dick novel ‘Minority Report’,” said Kade Crockford, an activist at the ACLU of Massachusetts.Credit.Tony Luong for The New York Times
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Though police have been using facial recognition technology for the last two decades to try to identify unknown people in their investigations, the practice of putting the majority of Americans into a perpetual photo lineup has gotten surprisingly little attention from lawmakers and regulators. Until now.