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Police State UK

"US police claim to use technology just as an investigatory lead, but in practice officers routinely ignore protocol and immediately arrest the most likely match spit out by the computer without first doing their own investigation."

"Cities across the United States have decided to join the growing movement to ban police use of face recognition, because this technology is simply too dangerous in the hands of police."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/poli

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World HarmsPolice have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with face recognition technology (FRT). It is too dangerous, invasive, and in the hands of law enforcement, a perpetual liability. EFF has long argued that face recognition, whether it is fully accurate or not, is too dangerous for...