Facial Recognition at the University of Miami
Information Certainty: Rumoured
Deployment Purpose: Surveillance
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Products and Institutions:
Product Deployed | FACES (FBI) Software |
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Institutions ⠉ | FBI |
Datasets | FACES (FBI) Dataset Unknown Dataset 0031 |
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Status and Events:
Status | Ongoing |
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Users:
Involved Entities | Florida Department of Law Enforcement Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office |
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Managed by | University of Miami |
Used by | University of Miami Police Force |
Location:
City | Miami (FL) |
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Country ⠉ | USA |
Description[ ]
Students believe that facial recognition was used to identify them at protests. The University of Miami Police Department (UMPD) denies it performed facial recognition searches. However it had previously been identified as a user of the FACES (FBI) database, which is for facial recognition.
In 2019, the Orlando Sentinel named the university police department as a user of the Face Analysis Comparison & Examination System (FACES), a 33-million-photo database. The images in FACES are sourced from driver’s license and law enforcement photos. UMPD was also listed as a user in a 2016 PowerPoint by the Pinellas County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office, which maintains the FACES database 1
UM says the photo comparison process is independent of UMPD; therefore, UMPD does not utilize facial recognition—even though UMPD is sending images to agencies that do use facial recognition. PCSO has one of the largest databases in the country. 2