“In an evolving threat landscape, CIA Labs will help us maintain our competitive edge and protect our nation.” “Some phenomenal innovations have come from CIA over the years, and with CIA Labs, we’re now better positioned to optimize developments and further invest in our scientists and technologists,” Dawn Meyerriecks, head of CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology, said in a statement this week. “We actually do not use facial recognition in the department,” an LAPD spokesperson previously told the LA Times last year, though adding it had only been deployed in “a few limited instances.” LAPD has consistently denied using the controversial technology, but it had, in fact, run machine learning algorithms nearly 30,000 times over a time span between November 2009, and September 2020. Technically the LAPD does not have its own tools, it instead outsources the use of machine-learning algorithms through a database of mugshots compiled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Officers used software built by DataWorks Plus, the same biometrics company whose technology led to two wrongful arrests by the Detroit Police Department, according to the Los Angeles Times who discovered the setup. In brief The Los Angeles Police Department has run facial recognition algorithms a whopping 29,817 times over a decade in an attempt to identify suspected criminals captured in CCTV footage, despite promising it wouldn't.

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