Police test facial recognition in Oregon. But privacy advocates have serious concerns.
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:04.1 | Washington Post is Kolby. |
| 0:07.1 | Hello, Shini Ho. |
| 0:08.6 | What's the Washington New York Bar? |
| 0:10.0 | What's your name? |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, Stephanie McCrimmon from the Washington Post. |
| 0:13.6 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:19.2 | It's Thursday, May 2. |
| 0:22.3 | Today new police technology with major ethical implications. |
| 0:26.7 | The future of women in Afghanistan and remembering the Holocaust amid recent synagogue shootings. |
| 0:35.1 | The old school way for these deputies was they would get surveillance footage from inside |
| 0:40.7 | a store or somebody would take a smartphone video and they would maybe have a picture |
| 0:46.3 | of somebody's face but they wouldn't really have any clue of how to find them. |
| 0:49.9 | They would pass it around to the other deputies and hopes that somebody would recognize |
| 0:53.4 | them. |
| 0:54.4 | You know, that was sort of a crap shoot. |
| 0:56.8 | Drew Harwell is a tech reporter at the Washington Post. |
| 1:00.0 | Now they have this facial scanning search tool where they can upload the footage into |
| 1:06.4 | the system and it can crawl through hundreds of thousands of jail mug shots that they've |
| 1:12.4 | been collecting back almost two decades and in their hopes find a match. |
| 1:19.2 | Drew spent some time with the Washington County Sheriff's Department in Oregon just outside |
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