Privacy fears as police set to use hand held facial recognition technology for crime fighting
Constitution, Privacy Rights Wednesday, July 13th, 2011By DANIEL BATES, dailymail.co.uk
Dozens of law enforcement agencies are to be given hand held facial recognition software based on that used by soldiers to identify the Taliban.
The device, which attaches onto an iPhone, lets police officers take a picture or scan an eye then compare the photo with a database of criminals.
Hundreds of are due to be rolled out across states from Arizona to Massachusetts this September in the first deployment of its kind.
Such technology has previously only been used in a military setting and raises grave concerns over privacy and its appropriate usage.
Legal experts have said that as it is so new it will slip into a grey area that is open to abuse.
The gadget lets a policeman take a picture from up to 5ft away and scan an iris from six inches away.
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