Judges decide cops can’t use black-box biometrics systems in criminal case

In an enforceable blow for transparency in facial recognition, an appeals court in the U.S. state of New Jersey has ruled that a defendant in a criminal trial must be shown information about systems being used to incriminate him.

A three-judge appellate panel in the Superior Court of New Jersey this week ruled that defendants have the right to know certain raw information about the AI algorithm used to match his face against a database of faces.

The court decided …

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