The New York Police Department says its facial recognition database is limited to mugshots, but documents obtained by HuffPost show apparent Facebook photos.
The New York City Police Department’s facial recognition program has courted controversy from the moment it was created in 2011 — civil libertarians and residents of the city didn’t want the largest police department in the country to become an all-seeing panopticon.
Greco, who specializes in digital forensics investigation at Legal Aid, said that typically the facial recognition unit forms included the term “photomanager” in the source of image field, to indicate that it came from the NYPD’s mugshot database. These documents appear to be straightforward proof the NYPD is inputting social media images into its facial recognition database — though the department denies it. “The limited information that is visible on these forms indicates that FIS did not utilize facial recognition technology to identify the suspects in these cases.
“It tells me that their database of photos does not just contain photos of individuals that have been arrested or convicted,” he added. “Somebody is making a decision to put individual photos into this database.” Thaxter expects that his office will be seeing a lot more cases where they’ll learn how facial recognition was used to investigate their clients.
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