Live facial recognition cameras lead to 82 arrests

Why this matters: Eighty-two arrests sounds like a success story. It is also 82 cases where a camera matched a face to a database and a person got taken into custody. The accuracy of that technology is not uniform. It performs worse on darker skin tones and women. So the people most likely to be wrongly flagged are not the ones setting the policy. Real-time facial recognition in public spaces means anyone walking outside is being checked against a government list, continuously, without being told. That is a significant shift in what it means to move through a city freely.