Biometric fusion of face with other records
Face
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What it does
Face fusion attaches a face match to other records about the same person: a name, a plate, a phone, or a social-media profile. The face system supplies a candidate. Another database supplies the rest of the identity. This card is that join. Combining non-face biometrics is the multimodal card.
Privacy watchdog concerns
- Electronic Frontier Foundation. Face Recognition. EFF says face recognition identifies or verifies a person from a photo, a video, or a live camera, including against mugshots and driver photos, and that false matches fall hardest on Black people, other minorities, women, and young people. EFF names Clearview AI as a vendor that scraped photos. This is EFF’s claim. It is not a finding that a Nevada agency bought a face system.
Constitutional issues
Unresolved question
Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18
Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency
Biometric fusion of face with other records: No Nevada system that joins a face match to other identifiers is documented. Carpenter does not decide the join. A false face match that pulls the wrong person’s records would raise a due-process question only with a record that someone was accused. That record is absent.
- Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018). Does not decide this technology. United States Supreme Court. Carpenter does not decide a face match joined to another record.
Statutes attached to read, not findings.
- NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
- Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18. State search-and-seizure provision. This page does not quote the section. No section anchor was verified. It is listed only where a search question is actually implicated.
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.
Nevada use
Not documented on this page.
Face-record join only. Non-face biometrics are on the multimodal card.
See also: Multimodal biometric fusion; Clearview-type facial recognition; Identity resolution
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Biometric fusion of face with other records: Do not describe a join that no contract shows.
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