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Post by avordvet on Mar 29, 2017 4:44:02 GMT -5
FBI Grilled On Extent Of Its Facial Recognition ProgramLawmakers express anger and horror over the agency's face recognition system, which now has unfettered accesses to ID photos in 18 states
By Joshua Kopstein, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:25 PM ET The FBI took fire from privacy advocates and members of Congress Wednesday over how it characterizes its face recognition program, which has allowed agents to access and algorithmically match the photos of tens of millions of Americans — including innocent people who have never been charged with a crime. At a hearing convened by the House of Representatives’ government oversight committee, experts and lawmakers pressed an FBI representative on the agency’s misrepresentation of the program’s scope, as well as its refusal to audit the accuracy of systems responsible for matching vast databases of photos with criminal suspects. FBI spokesperson Kimberly Del Greco responded to several questions with statements that contradict what is currently known about the scope and capabilities of the agency’s face recognition programs. “The only information the FBI has and have collected in our database are criminal mugshot photos,” Del Greco stated, when asked by committee chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) whether the FBI was collecting or storing photos of innocent people from other sources, like social media. “We do not have any other photos in our repository.” “That’s not true,” Chaffetz replied. www.vocativ.com/413934/fbi-facial-recognition-program/
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