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FBI is using facial-recognition technology to search for fugitives

The FBI is using driver's licenses and facial-recognition technology to search for fugitives. Officials say the approach holds promise, but privacy advocates say innocent people could be tracked. What do you think of the practice?

Gerry Broome, AP


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If you haven't done anything wrong, I'd say you have nothing to worry about.

 

If they are using this to track fugitives,than what is it to stop someone from using it for tracking protected witnesses. You never know who is using it this day and age it is a total miscarriage of privacy.

 

I am a firm believer in the right to privacy. However, over the past half century or so, it has become increasingly more difficult to apprehend, try, and convict vicious criminals. And, it seems that the more vicious the crime, the more people that come out in defense of the guilty. Criminals don't play fair; many defense lawyers don't play fair. What ever legal means is at L.E.'s disposal should be used. Just ask a woman who has been kidnapped, repeatedly raped, and held hostage for years if she thinks that checking DMV photos is unconstitutional.

 

Law enforment should be able to use any and all technologies to find criminals. The issue isn't about invasion of privacy if it is only used to find the bad guys. Get on with it.

 

Imagine the value of this software to identify suspects, missing persons, and victims unable to speak for themselves. This is merely a tool that with proper application will enhance investigations and produce clues for futher examination.

 

This is really no different that showing someones face on TV and asking the public to help find them.  I think it will be properly used and I am all for anything that will get the bad guys and gals off of our nations streets.  Only the people that have something to hide will be against this type of enforcement.

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It's a great stop forward for law enforcement.  In this day and age, with criminals walking free and terrorists living on our own soil, I say "go to it!".  Law enforcement should be developing new ways to deal with these threats, I'm all for it. 

If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear

 

This is the first I have heard of this practice, so I don't know anything about it.  I am very concerned that this would be one of many ways that what little privacy we have is being further eroded, and that innocent people could end up as suspects.  However, if used carefully and with discretion, this could be a valuable tool for bringing to justice criminals who are a threat to law-abiding citizens. 

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