Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
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Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci…::Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

  • andrew_bidlawEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    It’s a cold case of a single murder from 30 years ago. I thought they would use it on something more unique. Guess they thought it’s a way to silently normalize it via cases that are dead ends anyway to then bring it into a use on more recent stuff.