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Article: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century: technology, privacy, and human emotions.
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- Law and Contemporary Problems
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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INTRODUCTION
On July 3, 2001, the Tampa, Florida, Police Department began using FaceIt, a video surveillance system based on face-recognition software, in Ybor City, a downtown nightilfe district. (1) Three dozen security cameras scanned crowds while the software, using complex mathematical formulas to represent facial features, searched for database matches to the faces of wanted criminals. (2) When no match was found, the scanned image was deleted, a precaution voluntarily undertaken by the system's owner, Visionics Corporation of Jersey City, New Jersey, but not required by law. (3) If a match was found, however, a systems operator would then ...