Half of all U.S. adults are in face-recognition databases, and Black people more likely to be targeted

“One in two American adults is in a law enforcement face recognition network.”

“The Perpetual Lineup” report out today from a Georgetown University thinktank makes a compelling case for greater oversight of police facial-recognition software that “makes the images of more than 117 million Americans — a disproportionate number of whom are black — searchable by law enforcement agencies across the nation,” as the New York Times account reads.

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