Albuquerque Police Use Facial Recognition Tech Responsibly, Report Says

Government Technology:  If you have a New Mexico driver’s license, your face has been analyzed by the FBI.

Your face, along with your identifying information, might have even been a possible match in one of the FBI’s 240 facial recognition searches of New Mexico licenses this year alone, but you wouldn’t know it.

New Mexico is one of 16 states that allows the FBI to search its driver’s license database, according to a recent report from Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology.

While the report raised alarm about this practice nationwide, it handed out its highest praise for a law enforcement agency to the Albuquerque Police Department.

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