Crime is on the rise in many US cities and states, and this fact is being used by law enforcement in some of these places to push back against legislation that aims to limit the use of biometric surveillance in the form of facial recognition.
And so far, the police have been successful in turning the tide, with Virginia already poised to drop a law banning facial scanning not even a year after it was adopted. In all, about 25 states now have this type of rule in place, but reports suggest that the future of these bills is far from certain.
According to Reuters, the same scenario as in Virginia is likely to play out in New Orleans and California. Meanwhile, those states like New York, Colorado, and Indiana that are planning to ban the tech are coming under pressure to abandon their respective bills.
The police and those lobbying on their behalf insist that they need facial recognition technology - even though it is regarded as impermissibly privacy-invasive, inaccurate, biased, and potentially a dangerous tool in the hands of a surveillance state.
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