Law enforcement agencies are increasingly tracking people by biometrics, whether it’s facial recognition, fingerprints, tattoos, voiceprints or our DNA.
The providers of the technology and services behind biometrics are gung-ho about selling their goods to law enforcement: a typical story, from cloud-based biometrics company M2SYS, comes headlined with the promise that “Cloud-Based Biometrics Will Change the Face of Law Enforcement.”
That well may be so, but the face of law enforcement is changing in pitch-blackness.
There’s little transparency into how police are using technologies, which they’re using, how accurate they are, nor what, if any, policies are being used to protect our rights.