Key Points
Like PimEyes, tools like Clearview AI can make mistakes and incorrectly identify people, leading to erroneous arrests..
Indeed, the legal landscape surrounding how law enforcement can use surveillance technologies has been hazy, explained Beth Haroules, a staff attorney for the New York branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, largely because the law hasnt kept up with the pace with technological development...
That legal haze, though, may finally be starting to clear.. This summer, a federal appeals court judge declared that geofence warrants were violations of the Constitutions protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, though this decision only holds in Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana..
Tushar Jois, a City College of New York professor studying the intersection of privacy, technology, and censorship, said that police departments would routinely drop evidence in their cases rather than share data about their surveillance technology use...
Beryl Lipton, a senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a tech-focused civil liberties nonprofit, said that many of the things law enforcement officials used to only dream of are now increasingly possible...
