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Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci...::Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

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[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

“As long as we can pin it on someone…”

[-] aaaantoine@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

There's no way this would have been admissable as evidence on its own.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 8 months ago

Heh, you wish. All it takes is one corrupt judge.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 8 points 8 months ago

[-] hostops@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Well they do have a DNA of a suspect. It may be enough to get court order of DNA extraction of a subject. And matching DNA is definitely enough to get someone behind bars.

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