NYPD sued for refusing to disclose face recognition technology docs

‘A privacy group is suing the NYPD for documents related to their secretive and unregulated facial recognition program. They say the technology can misidentify people, causing innocent people to be investigated or arrested.
The Center on Privacy & Technology (CPT), a university think tank at Georgetown Law, announced Tuesday that it filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the New York Police Department (NYPD) after the department refused to disclose documents relating their long-term use of facial recognition technology.
Facial recognition technology uses algorithms to analyze images of human faces and match them with photos in a database containing such images as driver’s license photos, passport photos, police records and even public photos posted to social media or dating sites.’
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