The proposed law would prohibit Colorado law enforcement agencies from engaging in ongoing surveillance, conducting real-time or near real-time identification, or from starting persistent tracking using facial recognition without a warrant.
A bill introduced in the California Senate would make a temporary ban on police use of facial recognition and biometric scanners with police officer cameras permanent.
The New Jersey Legislature will consider two bills this session that would place some small limits on the use of facial recognition and other biometric surveillance technology by law enforcement. The proposed laws would not only help protect privacy in New Jersey; they could also hinder one aspect of the federal surveillance state.
The proposed law would prohibit Colorado law enforcement agencies from engaging in ongoing surveillance, conducting real-time or near real-time identification, or from starting persistent tracking using facial recognition without a warrant. SB113 allows an exception to the warrant requirement for exigent circumstances and would allow the use of facial recognition with a court order to locate a missing person or to identify a deceased individual.
The legislation would clarify and expand a current law prohibiting the Department of Motor Vehicles from using any facial recognition technology in connection with taking or retaining photographs or digital images. Under the proposed law, the DMV would still be barred from using facial recognition technology. It would further prohibit the department from allowing access to any of its digital photographs by any face recognition technology. This would effectively ban law enforcement agencies from using the state’s drives’ license database as a facial recognition database.