privacy

Do you unlock your phone with your finger or face? Many people do. However, should law enforcement be allowed to compel you to unlock your phone using these features?
Innocent people should be protected against mass searches by law enforcement in DNA databases.
Facial recognition is an exciting technology in a commercial or research context, but becomes scarier when in the hands of law enforcement. More problematic is the fact that Utah officials have been using this technology without any law governing its use—only their own internal policies that they alone control.
Utah lawmakers will be presented a simple question in January: should police officers be able to go on fishing expeditions in privately owned or crowd-sourced DNA databases?
If warrants are being issued in mere seconds, is the justice system working?
This bill would require the state to purge identifying information about an individual in the drug database after 24 months.

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