The country's largest maker of police body cameras said it would not add a facial recognition feature to its cameras, a move that coincides with growing public opposition to the technology, including attempts by some cities to ban its use.
They noted that real-time facial recognition on police body cameras is not considered feasible at the moment, and they expressed concern that Axon could reverse course once that changed.
"This is ultimately an issue about the kind of of society we want to live in, not about technical specs," said Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, which monitors police agencies' body camera policies, and who has been an outspoken Axon critic. Rather than rely on pledges from technology companies, lawmakers should impose regulations on how facial recognition is used, the advocates said.use facial recognition
to match people caught on surveillance footage committing crimes to databases containing mugshots or driver's license photos. Those programs rely on still images taken from the footage. But companies are now developing systems that could allow police to identify people from live video footage, such as body cameras. Fears of runaway government surveillance have prompted recent attempts to curb facial recognition's growth.
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