Ep 152: When a woman’s face is picked up by a new surveillance technology, it leads to her unlawful arrest. Is this new technology more harmful than helpful?

This is the Porcha Woodruff story.

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• NYT
• ACLU
• NY post
• NBC news
• Washington Post
• Pew research center
• Democracy Now
• Detroit News
• https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4773&context=wlulr

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