Stanford CIS

Axon's police body cams could be getting an AI upgrade. Civil rights groups are worried.

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"Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, which monitors police agencies' body camera policies and is one of the letter's signatories, said the groups felt it important to "draw a bright ethical line" around real-time facial recognition body cameras. He also said the groups were troubled by the lack of representation on the ethics board of communities, particularly those made up of racial minorities, that are subject to intense police scrutiny.

"Just because real-time face recognition might be technologically feasible to do doesn’t mean they should," Yu said."