New Jersey Supreme Court requires prosecutors to disclose facial recognition technology details
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors must disclose details about facial recognition technology used in criminal cases. The decision establishes a disclosure requirement intended to give defendants meaningful access to information about how they were identified.
Why this matters: Facial recognition makes mistakes, and those mistakes fall hardest on people who are already at a disadvantage in court. If prosecutors use this technology to build a case against you, you deserve to know which system they used, how accurate it is, and under what conditions it was run. Without that information, defendants cannot challenge the evidence. This ruling treats facial recognition like what it actually is: a fallible tool that needs scrutiny, not a magic result that speaks for itself.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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