California to ban facial recognition on body cameras
As a future lawyer, I am becoming increasingly aware of the amount of legal cases surrounding technology in the news. Facebook just recently faced a huge legal settlement regarding data privacy, and Twitter is facing legal repercussions from a recent hack. The justice system has been a little behind in their use of technology, but law enforcement officers have been using technology in the form of body cameras for the last fifteen years or so. There has been controversy around body cameras from the beginning, but more recently, agencies have started to implement facial recognition software into the cameras worn by officers.
California is now in the process of banning this recognition technology. Civil rights groups argue that this technology is an invasion of privacy since it allows officers to scan anyone’s face without consent and see whether or not they’re in the system. This technology is undeniably fascinating, but I have to agree that it infringes on basic civil rights. This kind of technology debate is important in the legal field. This article may not be a perfect representation of how technology affects lawyers in a positive way, but it does display important factors about future human rights and legal cases.