Who uses facial recognition in Canyon County?
Also listed here because the record shows it
These systems are documented primarily as something else. They appear here because a cited record shows the deployment also does this.
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The city's own sole source justification proposed a video analytics workstation as a separate offline investigation tool for the police department, providing "facial recognition" among other tools. Whether that workstation was bought and whether the function is enabled is not established by anything we read.
What we do not know
A million-dollar video analytics system for the police department [Nampa Police]
- Where the 60 cameras are, and which 30 intersections they cover.
- Whether the video analytics workstation with facial recognition was bought, whether the function is enabled, and under what policy.
- How long video is kept, who may search it, and whether searches are logged.
- What "vehicles of interest" means in practice, and whether the system reads plates.
- Whether the council was shown the BriefCam datasheet's face recognition capability when it voted.
What facial recognition is
Software that measures a face in an image and searches for a match in a database of known faces. It can be run on live camera feeds or on recorded footage after the fact.
How they work, why agencies buy them, and every county we have documented →
What you can do
Civic action
Show up
This technology is bought and renewed by boards, councils and committees that meet in public. We have confirmed where each of them meets in Canyon County and how public comment works there.
How to show up in Canyon County →Personal protection
Protect yourself
Practical steps to shrink your personal data trail. Our guides publish at launch; until then, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense is the best starting point.
Surveillance Self-Defense ↗