“This is the facial recognition technology nightmare scenario that we have been worried about.”

Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Since 2023, New Orleans police have secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city. The policy may violate an ordinance limiting police to facial recognition only for searches of specific suspects in violent crime cases. (Washington Post)