Facial Recognition at the University of Southern California

Facial Recognition at the University of Southern California
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event ? (2 January 2017, Documented, ?, No description)
City	Los Angeles (CA)
Country	USA
Involved Entities	UBTOS USA
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Technology Deployed	Virdi UBio Pro-X
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0024, Virdi (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Surveillance
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managed by	University of Southern California
used by	University of Southern California
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Virdi UBio Pro-X
Institutions ⠉	Virdi
Datasets	Virdi (Dataset) Unknown Dataset 0024
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Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	? (2 January 2017, Documented, ?, No description)
Start Date
End Date

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Involved Entities	UBTOS USA
Managed by	University of Southern California
Used by	University of Southern California

Location:

City	Los Angeles (CA)
Country ⠉	USA

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Description

In 2015 the University of Southern California (USC) started fingerprinting students in some dorms. In 2017 they installed facial recognition cameras and gave students the 'choice' between the two, however in 2020 due to the spread of COVID 19 they made facial recognition mandatory in some dorms. The supplier and maintainer of the devices, UBTOS USA, has contracts with law enforcement.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, USC has deactivated the fingerprint scanners in its residential halls, requiring students remaining in some dorms to use facial recognition technology to gain access to their rooms. While the university said its facial recognition system “doesn’t store data,” the product description of the device involved says that its “massive memory” can store 1 million identity templates, 10 million event logs, and 20,000 image logs. And experts say that in order to recognize specific faces, any system must store data 1

On top of that, the South Korean company that provided and maintains the technology boasts of doing business with the federal departments of justice and defense, as well as local law enforcement agencies. Yet every single one of those government entities said they have no record of any contract with the firm 1

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