Slate’s Ryan Gallagher investigated new face-recognition software that will be running when the Statue of Liberty reopens on July 4, Independence Day. He was told that this new and improved surveillance system would be up and running for Lady Liberty’s grand reopening. FaceVACS can guess ethnicity based on a person’s skin color, flag suspects on watch lists, estimate age of a person, detect gender, “track” faces in real time. After being put on hold, he was told the project had been vetoed by the Park Police and Gallagher was “not authorized to write about it””]