Criminal,
Civil Rights
Jun. 7, 2019
Facial recognition technology out-pacing laws
Law enforcement sees a database of faces as the most logical next step after fingerprinting, while civil rights activists and criminal defense attorneys call for more oversight.
When retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen W. Smith learned the police in his Texas hometown were taking photographs of arrestees to compile a facial recognition database, it rubbed him the wrong way.
Smith, now director of Fourth Amendment & Open Courts at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, understands both sides of the debate. Law enforcement sees a database of faces as the most logical next step after finge...
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