Milwaukee police weigh risks, benefits of facial recognition
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Court records show he pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.The police officials also shared information about a deadly shooting where facial recognition helped lead investigators to a pair of suspects. "The New York City-based startup claims to have amassed one of the largest-known repositories of pictures of peoples faces — a database of more than 3 billion images scraped without permission from places such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn," Buzzfeed journalists wrote in the article. "If you’ve posted images online, your social media profile picture, vacation snapshots, or family photos may well be part of a facial recognition dragnet that’s been tested or used by law enforcement agencies across the country," they added.The contract Milwaukee police officials are pursuing is with Biometrica. "The New York City-based startup claims to have amassed one of the largest-known repositories of pictures of peoples faces — a database of more than 3 billion images scraped without permission from places such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn," Buzzfeed journalists wrote in the article. "If you’ve posted images online, your social media profile picture, vacation snapshots, or family photos may well be part of a facial recognition dragnet that’s been tested or used by law enforcement agencies across the country," they added.