WaPo: New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’

WaPo: New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’ by Douglas MacMillan
(“New Orleans is considering easing restrictions on the police use of facial recognition, weeks after The Washington Post reported that police there secretly relied on a network of AI-powered surveillance cameras to identify suspects on the street and arrest them. According to the draft of a proposed ordinance posted to a city website, police would be permitted to use automated facial recognition tools to identify and track the movements of wanted subjects, missing people or suspected perpetrators of serious crimes — reversing the city’s broad prohibition against using facial recognition as a ‘surveillance tool.’ … If the rule passes, New Orleans would become the first U.S. city to formally allow facial recognition as a tool for surveilling residents in real time.”)