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2019: Shutdown of a state system of face recognition in San Diego
In the middle of December, 2019 the court decided that action of the platform of face recognition used by more than 30 state divisions of San Diego (California) will be suspended on January 1, 2020. The decision was made after the long campaign of groups of protection of the civil rights.
The program started in 2012 and known as the System of tactical identification (Tactical Identification System, TACIDS) includes the database of scans for face recognition, shared the local, regular and federal agencies. The officers equipped with handheld devices, including phones and tablets can carry out scanning for search of the gone people or wanted criminals.
According to Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), during the period from 2016 to 2018 officers executed more than 65,500 checks. Wide use of a sensing technology of persons, such as TACIDS, caused a fierce controversy among human rights activists who consider similar use of technologies inadmissible intervention in private life of citizens. Affirmed also that technology supervision can aggravate bias of police, when it comes to ethnic minorities.
The new law was adopted by the senate of the State of California in September, 2019 and signed in a month by the governor of the state. The law sets the moratorium on use of sensing technologies of persons by law enforcement agencies for three years. The moratorium extends to the portable devices and surveillance cameras equipped with a sensing technology of persons.
The moratorium comes into effect since January 1, 2020. The usage agreement of the software for TACIDS which cost is $175,000 a year will not be prolonged after its expiration in March, 2020.[1]
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