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Law 101 Trucking by Jim C. Klepper - Attorney at Law 800-333-DRIVE www.interstatetrucker.com www.driverslegalplan.com 24 www.studentdriverplacement.com May '14 Privacy: Is Anything Private Anymore? An article posted in the Day- ton Daily Newspaper post- ed highlighted a budget bill amendment sponsored by Sen. Bill Coley, R-Liberty Twp. His amendment would authorize facial recognition tech- nology at Ohio's four casinos, racinos and Internet café sweepstakes parlors. Images would be collected when pa- trons cash out and stored in a data- base for at least fi ve years to be used to detect money launderers. Facial rec- ognition technology works by measur- ing points between facial features and translating that data into code. "Anybody who's seen Oceans 11 or walked into a casino understands every- thing is being recorded," Coley said. The extra monitoring differs from health or phone records and there is no expecta- tion of privacy in a casino, which operates thousands of surveillance cameras. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is concerned about the idea. Associ- ate director Gary Daniels said the measure creates a slippery slope for the technology to be used in schools, state agencies and other areas of government. Daniels said facial recognition is not a solid technology and can be inaccurate due to changes in weight, facial hair and other features. Another article in the The Washington Post Newspaper in their Technology sec- tion titled "State photo-ID databases be- come troves for police" discussed how state law enforcement is mining huge databases like driver's license photos to identify people. The article said; The fac- es of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state offi - cials assembled to prevent driver's-license fraud but that increasingly are used by po- lice to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders in a wide range of criminal investigations. Facial-recogni- tion systems analyze a person's features — such as the shape of eyes, the curl of earlobes, the width of noses — to produce a digital "template" that can be quickly compared with other faces in a database. The facial databases have grown rapidly in recent years and generally operate with few legal safeguards beyond the require- ment that searches are conducted for "law enforcement purposes." Amid rising con- cern about the National Security Agency's high-tech surveillance aimed at foreigners, it is these state-level facial-recognition programs that more typically involve Amer- ican citizens. A review of the 26 states with facial-rec- ognition systems that allow police search or request searches include: VT, MA, CT, RI, DE, NV, UT, CO, ND, SD, NB, TX, NM, IA, AR, IL, IN, KY, WV, PA, NC, SC, GA, AL FL, and NJ. Eleven states have facial- recognition systems and generally do not allow law enforcement searches include; DC, NY, TN, OK, KS, WI, MN, ID, MT, OR, and WA. Thirteen states do not have fa- trucking law 0514.indd 1 4/21/14 9:35 AM