NOLA banned, then embraced, facial recognition. Here’s what happened next.

Facing a wave of violent crime in 2022, New Orleans decided to lift a ban on facial recognition technology and allow police to use it to identify certain suspects. But police were required to track how often the technology is used and whether it actually works. On POLITICO Tech, privacy reporter Alfred Ng and host Steven Overly discuss what the data show a year later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices