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Oct 12, 2020 · Clare Garvie is a Senior Associate at Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology, where she has dedicated her work to studying law enforcement’s use of face recognition technology on the American public.
May 14, 2021 · Clare Garvie is a senior associate with the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. She was lead author on three of the Center’s reports on face recognition, including: The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America in 2016; and Garbage In, Garbage Out: Face Recognition on Flawed Data and America Under Watch ...
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May 16, 2019 · Clare Garvie (L'15), senior associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology, continues her groundbreaking work on police facial recognition practices, with new reports issued this week. On April 28, 2017, a suspect was caught on camera reportedly stealing beer from a CVS in New York City.
- Why This Particular Project?
- What Is Facial Recognition? Why Should Americans Be Concerned About It?
- So If I Have A Maryland Driver’S License, What Does That Mean?
- Why Should We Be concerned, Compared to Fingerprints, For example?
- What Does This Mean For Racial Justice? There Are Racial Disparities?
- Walk Me Through The Work That You did.
- What Began to Emerge?
- How Did You Prepare Yourself For The Technological Aspects of this?
- What Impact Do You Hope The Report Will have?
Alvaro and the Center became a point of contact for media and for advocacy organizations around face recognition technology, thanks to Alvaro’s previous work on the commercial use of face recognition and through his work on technology legislation on the Hill. We realized we know a lot about how the FBI uses face recognition technology. But there is...
Facial recognition is a technology that turns our face into a kind of file that an algorithm can identify you with. A face recognition algorithm takes facial features — it can be the distance between the eyes, the texture of the skin, other face geometry — and makes that into a mathematical calculation that can be used to compare an unknown face to...
What it means for a lot of people with driver’s licenses, including from Maryland, is that you are in a database police can search to identify someone from a photograph or surveillance video still. What it means is that you are in a database used for criminal justice purposes, even if you’ve never been arrested. Most of us probably don’t think of o...
Face recognition technology is very new. Fingerprinting has been around for 100 years now; face recognition as used by police today has been around for about 15 years. While the technology is improving rapidly, it’s still not considered as accurate a form of identification as fingerprints. To be fair, many police departments we spoke to do recogniz...
There have been very few studies done examining possible racial bias in face recognition algorithms. Those that have been done show that some algorithms may perform up to 10 percent less accurately on people of color, as compared to white people. This means two things. One is that when an algorithm searches for an African American, it’s more likely...
We filed 106 records requests with state and local law enforcement agencies across the country, asking for any face recognition policies they had, requests for proposals and other contracting documents, invoices for the technology — pretty much anything you could think of that would give us information about face recognition. We also conducted over...
It sounds cliché, but the state of police face recognition in the U.S. is a “wild west.” It’s far more prevalent than most people think. There is wide variation in the levels of controls on the technology — whether or not there is a use policy, whether that policy has been made public, whether it requires reasonable suspicion or just a criminal jus...
A regret I have coming out of law school is that I didn’t take more of the classes offered by the Law Center in the privacy and technology space. I graduated before Professor Paul Ohm’s Coding for Lawyers class was in place. And I didn’t take Alvaro’s class [Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology Practicum, a joint class with students from MIT]. B...
I hope it’s the beginning of a much needed conversation. I hope it encourages civil rights and privacy advocates, state legislatures, and police departments to take a hard look at how law enforcement uses face recognition technology — or if a jurisdiction hasn’t implemented it yet, how they do so in a way that’s transparent, responsible, and engage...
May 22, 2019 · Statement of Clare Garvie Senior Associate, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. Before the. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform. Hearing on. Facial Recognition Technology (Part 1): Its Impact on Our Civil Rights and Liberties. Wednesday, May 22, 2019.
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March 8, 2024. Testimony of Clare Garvie Training & Resource Counsel, Fourth Amendment Center National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hearing on Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology .
Podcast #33: Clare Garvie on Facial Recognition Clare Garvie is Senior Associate at Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She’s been a researcher and lead author of several papers revealing the way law enforcement has been using (and often abusing) facial recognition technology.
