Re:California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Database...
by AmericanChopper on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:04PM
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The danger I see in it, is that everybody in the database is automatically considered a suspect for any crime in which the database is used.
If the police have to ask people to perform identification, then they have to follow some sort of investigative procedure to arrive at who they ask to perform identification, and who they present to be identified. Of course this has its own problems, but facial recognition databases really ramp those problems up.
Then if you get falsely identified, you’re gonna have to prove it. How much time do you spend every day, not committing crimes, but without an alibi to prove it?
If the police have to ask people to perform identification, then they have to follow some sort of investigative procedure to arrive at who they ask to perform identification, and who they present to be identified. Of course this has its own problems, but facial recognition databases really ramp those problems up.
Then if you get falsely identified, you’re gonna have to prove it. How much time do you spend every day, not committing crimes, but without an alibi to prove it?