Two of the cases took place in Detroit, where police have subsequently raised the standards for using facial recognition technology in criminal investigations. Police officials, like then-Detroit Police Chief James Craig, typically defend its use by noting that officers are only supposed to rely on the software to generate leads in an investigation — and not to determine who they arrest. But as a recent report from the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology noted in reference to this technology: “In the absence of case law or other guidance, it has in some cases been the primary, if not the only, piece of evidence linking an individual to the crime.”

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