A closer look
From the Branding Iron to Digital Faceprints
Biometric technologies sold by companies like Clearview AI continue a racist legacy of marking bodies for the purpose of identification and capture.
big tech
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A closer look
The Algorithmic School-to-Prison Pipeline
With little transparency or oversight, technology is being used to flag youth as risks to public safety and deciding who is surveilled, arrested, and confined.
Futures
Precrime Is No Longer Science Fiction
Biometric technologies are increasingly using facial expressions, eye movements, voice patterns, and more to predict whether someone has or will commit a crime.
A closer look
Carceral AI is here. It’s time to fight back.
Facial recognition is just the tip of the iceberg. Today, AI is being used to monitor social media, track ICE targets, and classify swaths of the population as “future” criminals.
A closer look
Tech Won’t Fix Eyewitness Identification
Eyewitness identification is a deeply flawed practice. Adding facial recognition technology, with its veneer of objectivity, only worsens the crisis of mass incarceration.
In Depth
Turning Death into a Commodity
ShotSpotter has leveraged gun violence into a multimillion-dollar business that promises safety but delivers only increased policing and drain on the public’s resources.