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PRIVACY GROUPS SOUND THE ALARM OVER FBI’S FACIAL-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY
More than 30 privacy and civil-liberties groups
are asking the Justice Department to complete a long-promised audit of
the FBI's facial-recognition database.
The groups argue the database, which the FBI says it uses
to identify targets, could pose privacy risks to every American citizen
because it has not been properly vetted, possesses dubious accuracy
benchmarks, and may sweep up images of ordinary people not suspected of
wrongdoing.
In a joint letter sent Tuesday
to Attorney General Eric Holder, the American Civil Liberties Union,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others warn that an FBI
facial-recognition program "has undergone a radical transformation"
since its last privacy review six years ago. That lack of recent
oversight "raises serious privacy and civil-liberty concerns," the
groups contend.
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