An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica: Law enforcement in several cities, including New York and Miami, have reportedly been using controversial facial recognition software to track down and arrest individuals who allegedly participated in criminal activity during Black Lives Matter protests months after the fact. Miami police used Clearview AI to identify and arrest a woman for allegedly throwing a rock…
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When the Police Get Filmed, Is There More Accountability?
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: Racism is not getting worse. It’s getting filmed,” Will Smith said in 2016. And this week the Washington Post noted a parallel pattern emerging: videos of violent police encounters which “contrast sharply with accounts by the departments or their unions.” The Post provides four examples of police officials providing “inaccurate or outright misleading descriptions of what has…