Overall, we had over 164,000 detections the last 7 days running the pilot.
We were able to detect students on multiple cameras and even detected one student 1100 times!
Taylor May, then a regional sales manager for AnyVision, said in an email to the schools administrators.
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One of those retail stores is Macys, whichuses facial recognition to detect known shoplifters, according to Reuters.
Neither Macys nor supermarket chain Mercadona responded to requests for comment.
The public records The Markup reviewed included a2019 user guidefor AnyVisions software called Better Tomorrow.
There have been at leastthree cases of a wrongful arrest of a Black man based on facial recognition.
For students, that can mean having their faces captured more than 1,000 times a week.
And theyre not just logged.
Faces that are detected but arent on any watchlists are still analyzed by AnyVisions algorithms, the manual noted.
In an email obtained through a public records request, the school district police departments Sgt.
Ruben Espinoza said officers were having trouble identifying a suspected drug dealer who was also a high school student.
By January 2020, the school district had uploaded 2,967 photos of students for AnyVisions database.
Theyre not using the information to go through and invade peoples privacy on a daily basis, Grassmuck said.
Youve built a system thats essentially like putting an ankle monitor on all your kids.
This article by Alfred Ng wasoriginally published on The Markupand was republished under theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeslicense.
