Facial Recognition & Law Enforcement: Do You Have That Guilty Look?
In the days of the mythic Wild West, the “Wanted!” poster was a staple of tales in which lawmen hunted outlaws. Desperados took many names, but it was their face which bank clerks and saloon owners recognized. Today the wanted poster is rapidly becoming obsolete with the rise of facial recognition technology, but with these systems comes a new sort of untamed frontier. As powerful systems spot and match faces in the crowd to databases of criminals and suspects, who’s watching