26 states enroll their residents in a virtual-line up that covers more than 117 million American adults. At least five major police departments either run real-time face recognition off of street cameras or have looked into buying tech so they can run face recognition against live-feed video. Not one agency required warrants, and many agencies did not even require an officer to suspect someone of committing a crime before using face recognition to identify her. In this line-up, its not a human that points to the suspectit’s an algorithm.”]

