{"id":48257,"date":"2021-08-25T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48257"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:21:38","slug":"us-to-expand-use-of-facial-recognition-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/us-to-expand-use-of-facial-recognition-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"US to Expand Use of Facial-Recognition Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten of the 24 federal agencies in the United States plan to expand the use of facial-recognition technologies by 2023. This is stated<\/a> in a U.S. Government Accountability Office report prepared at Congress’s request.<\/p>\n

The agencies, including the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and National Security, plan to deploy a total of 17 different systems. Thirteen of them will belong to the agencies themselves, two \u2014 to local law enforcement. Two more agencies plan to use the Clearview AI program.<\/p>\n

Ten agencies are also engaged in research and development in this area. The objectives for using the technology vary across agencies, but some are studying bias in biometric identification systems.<\/p>\n

For example, the Department of Justice studied the relationship between skin tone and rates of false matches in facial-recognition algorithms. Others studied how to make such systems more accurate even when scanning people wearing masks.<\/p>\n

Eighteen of the 24 federal agencies surveyed reported that they already use various forms of facial recognition. Many of them own more than one system.<\/p>\n

Most of the programs used by the respondents are government-owned; however six applications are supplied by commercial companies, including Clearview AI, Vigilant Solutions and Acuant FaceID.<\/p>\n

Many agencies also use or plan to use facial recognition to protect sensitive data, technologies and strategic facilities. Other applications relate to justice and military matters.<\/p>\n

According to a representative of the nonprofit digital-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, the report demonstrated growing reliance on facial-recognition technologies by the federal government.<\/p>\n

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“What concerns me most is its use by law enforcement agencies. Yet surveillance violates privacy to such an extent, is so discriminatory toward people of color, and with such a likelihood of causing false arrests that the government should not use facial recognition at all,” said<\/a> the rights advocate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In July, the controversial facial-recognition startup Clearview AI attracted $30 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In late June, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report stating that federal agencies in the United States are using facial recognition irresponsibly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In June, the human rights organization Amnesty International reported that the New York Police Department uses 15,000 cameras with facial recognition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In April, Senator Ron Wyden proposed banning Clearview AI in the United States at the federal level<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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