“These cameras are small, hard to notice, and all over the place. That\u2019s a pretty lethal combination for privacy unless we have reasonable rules on how they can be used together.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
LAST YEAR, A RUSSIAN startup announced that it could scan the faces of people passing by Moscow\u2019s thousands of CCTV cameras and pick out wanted criminals or missing persons. Unlike much face recognition technology \u2014 which runs stills from videos or photographs after the fact \u2014 NTechLab\u2019s FindFace algorithm has achieved a feat that once only seemed possible in the science fictional universe of \u201cMinority Report\u201d: It can determine not just who someone is, but where they\u2019ve been, where they\u2019re going, and whether they have an outstanding warrant, immigration detainer, or unpaid traffic ticket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Intercept: Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops’ Body Cameras into Surveillance Machines by Ava Kofman: “These cameras are small, hard to notice, and all over the place. That\u2019s a pretty lethal combination for privacy unless we have reasonable … Continue reading →<\/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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26425,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26424\/revisions\/26425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}