Washington County Police Are Using Facial Recognition Software for Mass Surveillance

  • von: Care2 Team
  • empfänger: Washington County, Oregon
When news broke that police were using Amazon's facial recognition technology, Rekognition, backlash was swift. In the wrong hands, the technology is a serious threat to civil liberties in the United States.

Rekognition is an extremely powerful software program capable of far-reaching potential. It can identify up to 100 people in an image — like a crowded protest — and track their movements. It's mass surveillance, automated, with little oversight or control.

Until recently, police in Orlando and Oregon's Washington County had access to Rekognition. Thankfully, Orlando just announced it was ending its pilot program and would no longer allow police to use the technology. Now we're asking Washington County to do the same.

Rekognition can be used to profile, track, and harass people, and will likely be used to target people of color, activists, immigrants, and members of other vulnerable groups. Imagine an undercover cop at an anti-ICE action relying on security camera footage and a phone app to track people through the crowd. Or the use of facial recognition to quickly spot undocumented immigrants on public transit and flag them for law enforcement.

Think about not knowing when you're being entered into a facial recognition database, how that information will be used, and whether it will ever be archived or destroyed.

This is a threat to our civil rights. Please join in demanding that Washington County stop allowing mass surveillance and ban the police use of Rekognition.
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