'We obtained thousands of documents revealing the FBI's major investment in developing face recognition software that could allow the government to identify and track millions of people at a time,' said ACLU.
by examples of misidentified Black men being arrested for crimes they did not commit—the U.S. Defense Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation were more closely involved in work on facial recognition software to identify people from drone and street camera footage than was previously known, according to the documents revealed as a result of the ACLU's public records lawsuit filed in late 2019.
Many of the records pertain to the Janus program, which was funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency and ultimately folded into a search tool used by multiple federal agencies called Horus. As the newspaper detailed: To refine the system's capabilities, researchers staged a data-gathering test in 2017, paying dozens of volunteers to simulate real-world scenarios at a Defense Department training facility made to resemble a hospital, a subway station, an outdoor marketplace, and a school, the documents show. The test yielded thousands of surveillance videos and images, some of which were captured by a drone.
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