Police are copying and pasting body parts in face recognition searches

Police are copying and pasting body parts in face recognition searches

🤦‍♂️ if you photoshop the face, you’re not actually doing facial recognition. “The reports document disturbing and sometimes bizarre law enforcement uses of the unregulated, often inaccurate technology. In many cases, the Georgetown scholars say, police are cutting and pasting parts of faces onto suspect images to generate face recognition “hits.” In others, officials are encouraged to run police sketches of suspects through face surveillance algorithms to try to identify people. Astonishingly, in New York, the scholars find, police have on more than one occasion substituted images of famous people including Woody Harrelson and a Knicks player in place of suspect photos when the photos are too grainy to be useful for face recognition purposes. In some cases, these practices have led police to identify people who were ultimately arrested and prosecuted. According to NYPD figures, police have made nearly 3,000 arrests based on these identifications. But despite its growing use in law enforcement, criminal defendants are almost never notified that face surveillance was used to identify them as suspects, raising significant constitutional due process concerns.”