{"id":12193,"date":"2021-06-29T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12193"},"modified":"2021-06-29T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:35:17","slug":"south-florida-cops-used-facial-recognition-in-horrifying-scheme-to-target-peaceful-protesters-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/south-florida-cops-used-facial-recognition-in-horrifying-scheme-to-target-peaceful-protesters-newspaper\/12193\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida Cops Used Facial Recognition in &#8216;Horrifying&#8217; Scheme to Target Peaceful Protesters: Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Raw Story, June 26, 2021. During the George Floyd protests in South Florida, facial-recognition technology was deployed to identify protesters &#8212; who had committed no crimes &#8211; by the Broward County sheriff, and the Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton police departments. That finding, through joint investigative reporting by the\u00a0South Florida Sun Sentinel\u00a0and the Pulitzer Center, revealed the stunning degree to which police were using surveillance on protesters. That included protests in Boca Raton in which &#8220;surprising images of solidarity&#8221; had shown police officers in riot gear taking a knee with cheering protesters. &#8220;Behind the scenes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/south-florida-cops-used-facial-recognition-in-horrifying-scheme-to-target-peaceful-protesters-newspaper\/12193\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Raw Story, June 26, 2021. During the George Floyd protests in South Florida, facial-recognition technology was deployed to identify protesters &#8212; who had committed no crimes &#8211; by the Broward County sheriff, and the Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton police departments. That finding, through joint investigative reporting by the\u00a0South Florida Sun Sentinel\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,368,1075,243,8],"class_list":["post-12193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-facial-recognition","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12194,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193\/revisions\/12194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}