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California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases To ID Suspects (medium.com) 56

Many of California's local law enforcement agencies have access to facial recognition software for identifying suspects who appear in crime scene footage, documents obtained through public records requests show. From a report: Three California counties also have the capability to run facial recognition searches on each others' mug shot databases, and others could join if they choose to opt into a network maintained by a private law enforcement software company. The network is called California Facial Recognition Interconnect, and it's a service offered by DataWorks Plus, a Greenville, South Carolina-based company with law enforcement contracts in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Santa Barbara. Currently, the three adjacent counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino are able to run facial recognition against mug shots in each other's databases. That means these police departments have access to about 11.7 million mug shots of people who have previously been arrested, a majority of which come from the Los Angeles system.
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California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases To ID Suspects

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  • Most photos and videos are so bad, even their mother wouldn't recognize them with her natural intelligence.

    • by Zorro ( 15797 )

      So?

      Police have been using pictures of people for 100+ years.

      Look at your drivers license. Police have that picture.

    • by Agripa ( 139780 )

      Most photos and videos are so bad, even their mother wouldn't recognize them with her natural intelligence.

      If drug dogs can justify probable cause with accuracy no better than random, then facial recognition false positives are an advantage.

  • California is full of monitoring companies, like Thiels' Palantir.
     
    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neapqg/300-californian-cities-secretly-have-access-to-palantir
     
    If you don't think you are being monitored you are awfully naiive.

  • Ok (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Impy the Impiuos Imp ( 442658 ) on Thursday August 01, 2019 @11:00AM (#59023238) Journal

    Most privacy and constitutional issues about facial recognition center around two things:

    1. Where does the database come from? We generally don't want government building such a thing on the general public.

    2. What are they running the AI against? There's a difference between crime footage and just putting it on a street cam and fishing.

    Neither applies in this case as it is crime footage against mug shot databases.

    Still, the police should realize also this is just a tool, and verify any suspects it picks out manually before bashing down doors.

    • "Still, the police should realize also this is just a tool, and verify any suspects it picks out manually before bashing down doors."

      My sides hurt from laughing so much ... this is the same country where, a couple of days ago, police responded to a 911 medical alert call, rang the bell at midnight, started wandering around the outside of the house, then, seeing the homeowner with a gun inside the house, cut loose with his pistol, hitting the homeowner multiple times.

      Yeah, 'verify' means work ... and US LE

      • by Agripa ( 139780 )

        "Still, the police should realize also this is just a tool, and verify any suspects it picks out manually before bashing down doors."

        My sides hurt from laughing so much ... this is the same country where, a couple of days ago, police responded to a 911 medical alert call, rang the bell at midnight, started wandering around the outside of the house, then, seeing the homeowner with a gun inside the house, cut loose with his pistol, hitting the homeowner multiple times.

        Yeah, 'verify' means work ... and US LE is notorious for being *reluctant* to do anything but issue speeding tickets, bash heads, and shoot black 'suspects'.

        Do not forget the other swatting [google.com] at the beginning of last year where the homeowner was shot and killed through a window in his own kitchen by the police and then 30 minutes later, the real police responded.

  • In the old days, each casino kept a photobook of people they caught cheating or threw out. Each time someone would come in, a person would have to go through the books and see if there was a match.

    Enter computers which allowed the casinos to digitize those pictures and add more information.

    Today, casinos have integrated facial recognition into their databases and if someone scams them, they pass that information on to the other casinos in mere moments. If the same person tries to enter another casino, the

    • by Agripa ( 139780 )

      In the old days, each casino kept a photobook of people they caught cheating or threw out. Each time someone would come in, a person would have to go through the books and see if there was a match.

      Enter computers which allowed the casinos to digitize those pictures and add more information.

      Today, casinos have integrated facial recognition into their databases and if someone scams them, they pass that information on to the other casinos in mere moments. If the same person tries to enter another casino, they've already been warned and the person flagged.

      The police coordinating facial recognition of criminals and suspects among each other is no different. It helps track down criminals and suspects more quickly. Think of it more like an APB. Everyone is informed, everyone is on the lookout.

      The difference is that the casino response is to remove someone for trespassing on private property rather than execute a SWAT raid on someone's home. How many casinos have killed bystanders and innocent people over the years and then been excused by the courts?

  • How soon before all these databases are connected and then hacked like Equifax?
  • You insensitive illiterate clod!

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