Facial Recognition Hearing Looks to Give Lawmakers Clearer Picture on Creepy Technology

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Which is why Chaffetz`s committee is holding a hearing Wednesday morning to investigate use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies, particularly the FBI.
What Facial Recognition Is ? and Isn`tTV cop shows that depict technologists zooming in on someone`s face in a grainy video, pressing a few buttons and immediately getting a full dossier on that person greatly exaggerate the current capabilities of facial recognition technology.
Those pictures include the faces of about half of all U.
S.
adults, Georgetown University Law School`s Center on Privacy & Technology estimates.
National Science FoundationMore than 400 million pictures of Americans` faces are archived in local, state and federal law enforcement facial recognition networks, the federal Government Accountability Office reported last year.
National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines suggest using clear multiple images and angles to generate a credible facial match.