Facial recognition technology has been increasingly adopted by police departments across the U.S., enabling them to identify individuals by comparing faces captured in images against extensive databases. In New Orleans, this marks the first significant implementation of real-time facial recognition for law enforcement purposes, allowing for immediate arrests. However, the use of this technology raises significant concerns about privacy and the presumption of innocence, as individuals may find themselves erroneously targeted by law enforcement while engaging in everyday activities.
Police across the country rely on facial recognition software, which uses artificial intelligence to quickly map the physical features of a face in one image and compare it to the faces in huge databases of images.
New Orleans's use of automated facial recognition has not been previously reported and is the first known widespread effort by police in a major U.S. city to use AI to identify people in live camera feeds.
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