LA Police Dept. studies facial recognition software
The Los Angeles Police Department is experimenting with facial-recognition software it says will help identify suspects, but civil liberties advocates say the technology raises privacy concerns and may not identity people accurately.
"It’s like a mobile electronic mug book," said Capt. Charles Beck of the gang-heavy Rampart Division, which has been using the software. "It’s not a silver bullet, but we wouldn’t use it unless it helped us make arrests."
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