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EFF and MuckRock run census to find out how local police track your biometrics

EFF and MuckRock run census to find out how local police track your biometrics

August 6, 2015

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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.

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