The law, which went into effect on July 1, has received widespread bilateral support. But now some legislators say it is only a temporary measure.
D-Jay Lefwich, who argues that the technology may be, R-Chesapeake: Necessary crime prevention tool.
The law allows police to enter a database when their target is committing a crime or when they have a “reasonable suspicion” that they are planning to commit a crime. The law allows the police to use technology to identify victims or witnesses and the dead and other situations.
While the bans would allow the technology to be used in any investigation, the bans would have the effect of blocking dragnet-type searches, which underscores the fact that officers are asking people indiscriminately – Senator Scott Surovel, D. Fairfax, while presenting the same law. In the Senate.
“The bill does not work on a large scale monitoring,” he said. “You have to have a special case to work on or someone to try to isolate someone in a hospital bed.”
Both at home And Senate Legal versions explicitly prohibit the police from using any face-to-face matches as a pretext for a search or arrest warrant. The law requires police to certify 98 percent of the software used by the US Department of Commerce’s National Standards and Technology Institute, and proponents of the technology say it should address criticism when it comes to identifying people of color. .
Legislators have lifted a ban on the technology last year after Virginia pilot police officers began using the technology with little control. There is no official statement.
According to the newspaper, Clearview AI, one of the pioneers of the technology, is sending free e-mails to the police via email. The company is based on images collected from social media and other public sources.
Of The company employs six lobbyists According to public records compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project, this session in Virginia aims to “legalize the use of law enforcement agencies and other public safety agencies.”
As the ban on the use of the technology by the police has been widely supported over the past year, the repeal of the technology is still popular. No one testified in either the House or the Senate, and the committee went to two parties.
The measure has not yet been voted on by either the entire House or the Senate.
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