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ACLU: DOJ must investigate police use of facial recognition technology
Wednesday 19 October 2016 at 9:40 AM ET by Steven Wildberger
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[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights [advocacy websites] and 50 other interest groups, sent a letter [text] on Tuesday urging the US Department of Justice [official website] to investigate the increasing use of facial recognition technology. This letter is a part of the advocacy groups' greater concern that certain police use of technology may violate civilian rights, and that those violations are disproportionately felt by minority communities. According to ACLU legislative counsel Neema Singh Guliani, half of American adults are within a government facial recognition database, and those databases are used with near impunity by law enforcement.

http://www.jurist.org/paperchase/2016/10/aclu-doj-must-investigate-police-use-of-facial-recognition-technology.php
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