FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
Source: Washington Post
FBI, ICE find state drivers license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans faces without their knowledge or consent.
By Drew Harwell July 7 at 3:54 PM
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state drivers license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.
Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by Georgetown Law researchers and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.
Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA and other biometric data taken from criminal suspects. But the DMV records contain the photos of a vast majority of a states residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.
Neither Congress nor state legislatures have authorized the development of such a system, and growing numbers of Democratic and Republican lawmakers are criticizing the technology as a dangerous, pervasive and error-prone surveillance tool.
Law enforcements access of state databases, particularly DMV databases, is often done in the shadows with no consent, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) said in a statement to The Post.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/07/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-gold-mine-facial-recognition-searches/
captain queeg
(10,208 posts)Of course the government will use whats available. Dumbasses I know will say if you havent done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about. I think plenty of them believe that, not realizing whats wrong can easily be redefined.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)that facial recognition software is notoriously unreliable.
Eugene
(61,903 posts)LessAspin
(1,155 posts)Wouldn't surprise me if Trump had Pompeo and the State Dept. using this dubious tech to identify the patrons of this bar...
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Facial recognition tech has been under scrutiny in Detroit and elsewhere...
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)That's even worse than lie detectors, which are wrong half the time.