A man watches as a visitor tries out a facial recognition display at a booth for Chinese tech firm Ping'an Technology at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing, Thursday, April 26.

NJ Legal Rights & NYPD's Facial Recognition Technology

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 30, 2022

Alexander Shalom, senior supervising attorney and director of Supreme Court advocacy at the ACLU-NJ, talks about the implications of a case in Hudson County, NJ, where a suspect was identified using the NYPD's facial recognition technology. The NJCLU has filed an amicus brief on behalf of the suspect's request for more information on how the identification was done.

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