A display showing a facial recognition system for law enforcement in Washington, DC. Ting said the fact that his face, and those of 25 other lawmakers, showed up as a positive match by the facial recognition program was a demonstration 'about how this software is absolutely not ready for primetime'. — AFP/TNS
SACRAMENTO, California: When two California lawmakers came together Tuesday to champion a bill that would block police departments from using facial recognition technology in their body cameras, it was personal.
After all, both lawmakers – Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, and Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles – were among the 26 state legislators who were falsely identified as criminals when their portraits were compared to a mugshot database.
