24-07-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org

Clare Garvie & Jay Diaz: Suspension of DMV face recognition program not enough

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Clare Garvie and Jay Diaz. Garvie is an associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law and co-author of “The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America.” Diaz is a staff attorney at the ACLU of Vermont.Have a Vermont ID? Up until late May, your photo was regularly searched by face recognition software to see if you are — or look like — someone of interest to police across the country.
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