https://theintercept.com/2016/10/18/study-lack-of-face-recognition-oversight... https://www.aclu.org/letter/coalition-letter-department-justice-civil-rights... https://www.perpetuallineup.org/ http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-267 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-MxWJP0ZmePT0hna01PZ2FqTVE?usp=shar... https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/FilesPDFs/drawing_blank.pdf http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-facial-recognition-201... https://epic.org/foia/fbi/ngi/#FOIA A broad coalition of over 50 civil liberties groups delivered a letter to the Justice Department’s civil rights division Tuesday calling for an investigation into the expanding use of face recognition technology by police. “Safeguards to ensure this technology is being used fairly and responsibly appear to be virtually nonexistent,” the letter stated. The routine unsupervised use of face recognition systems, according to the dozens of signatories, threatens the privacy and civil liberties of millions — especially those of immigrants and people of color. These civil rights groups were provided with advance copies of a watershed 150-page report detailing — in many cases for the first time — how local police departments across the country have been using facial recognition technology. Titled “The Perpetual Lineup,” the report, published Tuesday morning by the Georgetown Center on Privacy & Technology, reveals that police deploy face recognition technology in ways that are more widespread, advanced, and unregulated than anyone has previously reported. https://theintercept.com/2016/10/18/how-chicago-police-convinced-courts-to-l... The Chicago Police Department has acquired and used several varieties of advanced cellphone trackers since at least 2005 to target suspects in robberies, murders, kidnappings, and drug investigations. In most instances, officers only lightly described the devices’ advanced technical surveillance capabilities to courts, which allowed the police to use them, often without a warrant. Now, after a lengthy legal battle waged by Freddy Martinez, a Chicago software technician, court orders and case notes were released, painting a more detailed picture of how the second-largest police precinct in the U.S. uses surveillance technology to track cellphones. Martinez, who leads the Lucy Parson Labs, a Chicago-based nonprofit that advocates digital rights and transparency, originally sued for records in September 2014. He provided the released documents to The Intercept. The Chicago Police Department did not respond to request for comment. “The use of Stingrays as a part of the war on drugs, which were purchased with civil asset forfeiture funds,” demonstrates how “militarized equipment” is disproportionately used