60 Minutes 5/16
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
More police departments across the U.S. are using facial recognition technology, but there aren't well-established national guidelines on how it should be used. Anderson Cooper tells us more. Next month, a government report is expected to be made public on sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, better known as UFOs. Bill Whitaker reports on the sightings. And Tennis legend Rafael Nadal tells Jon Wertheim that self-doubt is the key to his success. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:37.6 | Facial recognition is a critical tool for law enforcement. |
| 0:41.1 | The FBI used it to identify suspects from the Capitol in January 6th. |
| 0:46.2 | In state and local police say it's instrumental in cracking some of their toughest cases. |
| 0:51.7 | Facial recognition technology uses complex algorithms to identify suspects by searching |
| 0:57.4 | them against a database of photos. |
| 1:00.2 | But it's not just mug shots. |
| 1:02.0 | If you have a driver's license, there's a good chance your picture may have been searched |
| 1:06.4 | too. |
| 1:14.6 | To the Pentagon, these are known as unidentified aerial phenomena. |
| 1:19.2 | But what they are and where they come from is about to become part of an official government |
| 1:24.5 | report. |
| 1:25.8 | What do you think when you see something like this? |
| 1:28.4 | This is a difficult one to explain. |
| 1:30.4 | You have rotation, you have high altitudes, you have propulsion, right? |
| 1:34.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:35.3 | I don't know what it is. |
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