{"id":42427,"date":"2020-02-16T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T21:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42427"},"modified":"2020-02-16T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T21:55:43","slug":"huffpost-the-nypd-may-be-secretly-using-facebook-photos-in-its-facial-recognition-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42427","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost: The NYPD May Be Secretly Using Facebook Photos In Its Facial Recognition Searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPost: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/nypd-facial-recognition-facebook-social-media_n_5e46da8bc5b64433c615d9a1\">The NYPD May Be Secretly Using Facebook Photos In Its Facial Recognition Searches<\/a> by Mike Hayes (&#8220;In two recent cases, however, official documents from the NYPD Facial Information Section (FIS) obtained by HuffPost indicate that social media photos were used to generate a match for a suspect who was later arrested and charged. If the department is indeed placing social media images into its facial recognition database, New Yorkers who post photos on Facebook or Instagram might be at risk of becoming suspects in a criminal investigation, since the NYPD uses facial recognition hits as starting points for criminal probes. Given the well-known inaccuracy of facial recognition software, both the innocent and the guilty could be swept into the department\u2019s digital dragnet.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPost: The NYPD May Be Secretly Using Facebook Photos In Its Facial Recognition Searches by Mike Hayes (&#8220;In two recent cases, however, official documents from the NYPD Facial Information Section (FIS) obtained by HuffPost indicate that social media photos were &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42428,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions\/42428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}