I was wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition. Why are police allowed to use it?; The Washington Post, June 24, 2020

Robert Williams, The Washington Post; I was wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition. Why are police allowed to use it?

"Federal studies have shown that facial-recognition systems misidentify Asian and black people up to 100 times more often than white people. Why is law enforcement even allowed to use such technology when it obviously doesn’t work?...

Even if this technology does become accurate (at the expense of people like me), I don’t want my daughters’ faces to be part of some government database. I don’t want cops showing up at their door because they were recorded at a protest the government didn’t like. I don’t want this technology automating and worsening the racist policies we’re protesting. I don’t want them to have a police record for something they didn’t do — like I now do."