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pAmerican communities are being confronted by a lot of new police technology these days, a lot of which involves surveillance or otherwise raises the question: “Are we as a community comfortable with our police deploying this new technology?” A critical question when addressing such concerns is: “Does it even work, and if so, how well?” It’s hard for communities, their political leaders, and their police departments to know what to buy if they don’t know what works and to what degree./p pOne thing I’ve learned from following new law enforcement technology for over 20 years is that there is an awful lot of snake oil out there. When a new capability arrives on the scene—whether it’s a href=https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/drawing_blank.pdfface recognition/a, a href=https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific/emotion recognition/a, a href=https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/061819-robot_surveillance.pdfvideo analytics/a, or “a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/chicago-police-heat-list-renews-old-fears-aboutbig data/a” pattern analysis—some companies will rush to promote the technology long before it is good enough for deployment, which sometimes a href=https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific/never happens/a. That may be even more true today in the age of artificial intelligence. “AI” is a term that often amounts to no more than trendy marketing jargon./p div class=mp-md wp-link div class=wp-link__img-wrapper a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/six-questions-to-ask-before-accepting-a-surveillance-technology target=_blank tabindex=-1 img width=1200 height=628 src=https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a573aa109804db74bfef11f8a6f475e7.jpg class=attachment-original size-original alt= decoding=async loading=lazy srcset=https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a573aa109804db74bfef11f8a6f475e7.jpg 1200w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a573aa109804db74bfef11f8a6f475e7-768x402.jpg 768w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a573aa109804db74bfef11f8a6f475e7-400x209.jpg 400w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a573aa109804db74bfef11f8a6f475e7-600x314.jpg 600w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a573aa109804db74bfef11f8a6f475e7-800x419.jpg 800w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a573aa109804db74bfef11f8a6f475e7-1000x523.jpg 1000w sizes=(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px / /a /div div class=wp-link__title a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/six-questions-to-ask-before-accepting-a-surveillance-technology target=_blank Six Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Surveillance Technology /a /div div class=wp-link__description a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/six-questions-to-ask-before-accepting-a-surveillance-technology target=_blank tabindex=-1 p class=is-size-7-mobile is-size-6-tabletCommunity members, policymakers, and political leaders can make better decisions about new technology by asking these questions./p /a /div div class=wp-link__source p-4 px-6-tablet a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/six-questions-to-ask-before-accepting-a-surveillance-technology target=_blank tabindex=-1 p class=is-size-7Source: American Civil Liberties Union/p /a /div /div pGiven all this, communities and city councils should not adopt new technology that has not been subject to testing and evaluation by an independent, disinterested party. That’s true for all types of technology, but doubly so for technologies that have the potential to change the balance of power between the government and the governed, like surveillance equipment. After all, there’s no reason to get a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/six-questions-to-ask-before-accepting-a-surveillance-technologywrapped up in big debates/a about privacy, security, and government power if the tech doesn’t even work./p pOne example of a company refusing to allow independent review of its product is the license plate recognition company Flock, which is pushing those surveillance devices into many American communities and tying them into a centralized national network. (We wrote more about this company in a 2022 a href=https://www.aclu.org/publications/fast-growing-company-flock-building-new-ai-driven-mass-surveillance-systemwhite paper/a.) Flock has steadfastly refused to allow the a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/are-gun-detectors-the-answer-to-mass-shootingsindependent/a security technology reporting and testing outlet a href=https://ipvm.com/IPVM/a to obtain one of its license plate readers for testing, though IPVM has tested all of Flock’s major competitors. That doesn’t stop Flock from a href=https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-lpr-city-sued?code=lfgsdfasd543453boasting/a that “Flock Safety technology is best-in-class, consistently performing above other vendors.” Claims like these are puzzling and laughable when the company doesn’t appear to have enough confidence in its product to let IPVM test it./p div class=mp-md wp-link div class=wp-link__img-wrapper a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific target=_blank tabindex=-1 img width=1160 height=768 src=https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0cab632e1da8a25e9a54ba8019ef74e.jpg class=attachment-original size-original alt= decoding=async loading=lazy srcset=https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0cab632e1da8a25e9a54ba8019ef74e.jpg 1160w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0cab632e1da8a25e9a54ba8019ef74e-768x508.jpg 768w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0cab632e1da8a25e9a54ba8019ef74e-400x265.jpg 400w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0cab632e1da8a25e9a54ba8019ef74e-600x397.jpg 600w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0cab632e1da8a25e9a54ba8019ef74e-800x530.jpg 800w, https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0cab632e1da8a25e9a54ba8019ef74e-1000x662.jpg 1000w sizes=(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px / /a /div div class=wp-link__title a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific target=_blank Experts Say 'Emotion Recognition' Lacks Scientific Foundation /a /div div class=wp-link__description a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific target=_blank tabindex=-1 p class=is-size-7-mobile is-size-6-tablet/p /a /div div class=wp-link__source p-4 px-6-tablet a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific target=_blank tabindex=-1 p class=is-size-7Source: American Civil Liberties Union/p /a /div /div pCommunities considering installing Flock cameras should take note. That is especially the case when errors by Flock and other companies’ license plate readers can lead to innocent drivers finding themselves with their a href=https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-lpr-city-sued?code=lfgsdfasd543453hands behind their heads/a, facing jittery police pointing guns at them. Such errors can also expose police departments and cities to lawsuits./p pEven worse is when a company pretends that its product has been subject to independent review when it hasn’t. The metal detector company Evolv, which sells — wait for it — emAI/em metal detectors, submitted its technology to testing by a supposedly independent lab operated by the University of Southern Mississippi, and publicly touted the results of the tests. But a href=https://ipvm.com/reports/bbc-evolvIPVM/a and the a href=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63476769BBC/a reported that the lab, the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (a href=https://ncs4.usm.edu/NCS4/a), had colluded with Evolv to manipulate the report and hide negative findings about the effectiveness of the company’s product. Like Flock, Evolv refuses to allow IPVM to obtain one of its units for testing. (We wrote about Evolv and its product a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/are-gun-detectors-the-answer-to-mass-shootingshere/a.)/p pOne of the reasons these companies can prevent a tough, independent reviewer such as IPVM from obtaining their equipment is their subscription and/or cloud-based architecture. “Most companies in the industry still operate on the more traditional model of having open systems,” IPVM Government Research Director Conor Healy told me. “But there’s a rise in demand for cloud-based surveillance, where people can store things in cloud, access them on their phone, see the cameras. Cloud-based surveillance by definition involves central control by the company that’s providing the cloud services.” Cloud-based architectures can a href=https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/major-hack-of-camera-company-offers-four-key-lessons-on-surveillanceworsen the privacy risks/a created by a surveillance system. Another consequence of their centralized control is increasing the ability of a company to control who can carry out an independent review./p pWe’re living in an era where a lot of new technology is emerging, with many companies trying to be the first to put them on the market. As Healy told me, “We see a lot of claims of AI, all the time. At this point, almost every product I see out there that gets launched has some component of AI.” But like other technologies before them, these products often come in highly immature, premature, inaccurate, or outright deceptive forms, relying little more than on the use of “AI” as a buzzword./p pIt’s vital for independent reviewers to contribute to our ongoing local and national conversations about new surveillance and other police technologies. It’s unclear why a company that has faith in its product would attempt to block independent review, which is all the more reason why buyers should know this about those companies./p