PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown on Facial Recognition Technology and Public Safety
3:16:01
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3 min
Sharon Brown testifies about concerns regarding the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, emphasizing its potential inaccuracies and suggesting limitations on its use in criminal proceedings. She also comments on public safety concerns related to terrorism and suggests focusing surveillance efforts on specific communities.
- Brown argues that facial recognition technology is not guaranteed to be accurate and should not be used as definitive evidence in criminal cases.
- She suggests that if facial recognition is used, it should only be for general information gathering rather than for indictments.
- Brown expresses concerns about terrorism and suggests that surveillance technology should focus on communities she perceives as problematic, particularly mentioning the "Islamic community."
Sharon Brown
3:16:01
Hello.
3:16:01
My name is Sharon Brown.
3:16:04
Remember Israel, defend Israel, release the hostages, let Yahweh's people go.
3:16:09
Okay.
3:16:11
The facial recognition is not guaranteed to be accurate, so I don't think that it should be used the way that it's used.
3:16:23
If someone is using a facial recognition and then they use it to indict someone and then they get arrested or they get convicted, it is not proper if someone had to identify them by a bunch of people going around even in the police department department and saying, this is the person, we think this is the person.
3:16:50
It's not even generated in the computer that it matches someone else.
3:16:56
So I think that system is very flawed.
3:17:00
I think we need to focus on the things that are happening today as far as public safety is concerned.
3:17:08
We have a Islamic concern.
3:17:10
If we're gonna use facial recognition or any kind of recognition, we need to try to make sure that we're safe from the Islamic community that is targeting us.
3:17:25
The convictions and things that are happening is under the auspices of Islam versus a Judeo Christian nation, a Judeo Christian state, Judeo Christianity has ruled ever since we made this a nation, and that's what we're going to use here.
3:17:46
If we're going to look at different communities, we're not gonna go into the inner cities, we're going to be looking at communities who really are problematic to us.
3:17:58
So if we understand that terrorism is a situation that is on the wise at this time, that's what we should be using our technology for.
3:18:07
And we need to broaden our technology, we need to look around the world and see the things that they have, we need to be competitive with the things that we're making, and we need to find people like myself that can make technology that will outdo what we have out there and be accurate.
3:18:28
If we're going to use facial recognition, the computer itself should say this is a match, it shouldn't be and and not to impugn the NYPD because they're doing the best that they can do under the circumstances and with the technology that they have.
3:18:45
So if they do have the technology and they're gonna use it, then they're going to they say 86% that it's usually wrong.
3:18:54
Well, it would be that way because that's the technology that we have.
3:18:58
So either we're gonna do some kind of oversight and say you can you can't use it to be something definitive in a case, but we can use facial recognition, sorry.
3:19:11
We can't we can use facial recognition to get a general idea, but we can't use it to actually indict someone.
Yusef Salaam
3:19:19
Thank you.
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If you can please wrap, that'd be great.
Gale Brewer
3:19:21
Yes.
3:19:22
That's it.
Yusef Salaam
3:19:22
Thank you.
Sharon Brown
3:19:23
And just remember Israel.
3:19:25
Thank