Body Cam Company Files Patent For Built-In Facial Recognition Tech

guest · Oct 4, 2018

Body Cam Company Files Patent For Built-In Facial Recognition Tech
October 3, 2018
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...patent-built-in-facial-recognition-tech.shtml

While the patent application contains some nice "triggering" effects that may result in more captured footage of questionable incidents, it also contains something that would turn passive recordings into active surveillance.

In mid-September, Digital Ally, a cloud-storage and video-imaging company, announced a series of patents for cameras that would automatically be triggered by various stimuli, not just an officer pressing record.
[...] But some of the auto-triggers would cause the cameras to record simply as police move through public spaces. As described in one patent, an officer could set his body camera to actively search for anyone with an active warrant. [...] If there’s a match, the camera would begin to record automatically.

Any public place that routinely hosts large gatherings of people will be next in line for biometric scanning. And once the tech catches up with the dream, body cams will ID pedestrians by the hundreds, even when cops aren't actively searching for subjects or suspects.

Supporters will say facial recognition tech makes both officers and the public safer. This may be true, but so do all sorts of privacy/Constitutional violations.
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