StrypeyMar 26, 2024

Ye gods...

"A police force in California recently employed the new practice of taking a DNA sample from a crime scene, running this through a service provided by US company Parabon NanoLabs that guesses what the perpetrators face looked like, and plugging this rendered image into face recognition software to build a suspect list."

#PaigeCollings and #MatthewGuariglia, 2024

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas

#AI #DNA #InvasivePolicing #ParabonNanoLabs

Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas

In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 23, 2024
#Cops Used #DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run #FacialRecognition
#Police found a victim, dead and sexually assaulted, in Berkeley, California in 1990. 30yr later, they sent #genetic information collected at #crimescene to #ParabonNanoLabs—a company that says it can turn DNA into a face. #US #LEO say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but cops thinks that’s a bad idea.
https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/
Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It

Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

WIRED