meeting yesterday that he didn’t mind being a little late to the party in the area of facial recognition technology.
Williams said investigative facial recognition technology is a means of ascertaining and confirming an individual’s identity. It uses open-source information as comparison images, employing artificial intelligence to identify and compare millions of these images. The tech is used by police agencies across the country.
“It’s really putting two sets of eyes on the results to ensure that we’re getting a positive or negative, that there’s no discrepancies in the identification, really to mitigate any misidentification that may be occurring,” Williams said. “If there is a difference between the two analysts, it will go to a supervisor for final review. The supervisor then will determine if it's a negative or positive result from that reveal.
The use of the technology will be logged and reported, allowing data collection that could facilitate further research. Data collection is governed by federal regulations for operating federally funded, multi-jurisdictional criminal intelligence systems. During the meeting, Garcia chimed in to quell some of the privacy concerns.