Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
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#2Is this a new restriction on existing practices, or legislation that enables more functionality with police drones as long as it doesn't include weapons or facial recognition? I get an entirely different vibe from every other discussion on this legislation than from the headline of this post.
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#5As a Brit, watching the militarisation of the US police force is kinda scary. Hearing about successful push back and positive legislation is good.
A quick bit of Googling, I can't find any evidence of weapons a being placed on police drones in Illinois, so this seems preemptive, which is good to see!
(Our own police force has many of its own problems)
Re: Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
#6Is this a new restriction on existing practices, or legislation that enables more functionality with police drones as long as it doesn't include weapons or facial recognition? I get an entirely different vibe from every other discussion on this legislation than from the headline of this post.
As you can see from the text (signed by the governor today; effective immediately), this is a new restriction. All underlined text is newly added to the law. Text with a strikethrough is removed from the law.
The law also adds many new data reporting obligations, and empowers the Attorney General to investigate (with teeth) violations.
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#7The facial recognition isn't on the drone, the cop just uploads the footage to a tagging service *trollface*
Re: Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
#8As a Brit, watching the militarisation of the US police force is kinda scary. Hearing about successful push back and positive legislation is good. A quick bit of Googling, I can't find any evidence of weapons a being placed on police drones in Illinois, so this seems preemptive, which is good to see! (Our own police force has many of its own problems)
Wait until you see how we've militarized the domestically-incorporated information systems that we export.
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#9The facial recognition isn't on the drone, the cop just uploads the footage to a tagging service *trollface*
Illinois has very strong anti facial recognition / biometric law. Theres been a lot of class action lawsuits recently. I got like $300 from the facebook settlement alone.
So this loophole wouldn't work either fortunately
Re: Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
#10The facial recognition isn't on the drone, the cop just uploads the footage to a tagging service *trollface*
The law covers both scenarios, as shown in the linked text:
> A law enforcement agency operating a drone under this Act is prohibited from using, during a flight, onboard facial recognition software that works in conjunction with the drone. A law enforcement agency operating a drone under this Act is prohibited from using any information gathered by a drone with any facial recognition software