For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable criteria.

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    This stuff scares me.with all the sneaky ass companies hoarding DNA, it becomes too easy to frame someone. This kind of shit doesn’t help either.

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      What’s scary here is the lack of training/understanding on the investigation side… This is just ignorance.

      the family deserves to know that we tried everything

      Like, have you tried praying? We don’t have any data, so it may be effective.

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      It already is too easy to frame someone, and you didn’t have to spoof their DNA to do it.

      Just bribe the dna guy to say it matches and done