All police crime fighting activities wrack up real-world harm. For example I see an estimate that the police killed 1250 people in 2024. While most of the killings were unavoidable many were not.
So it's question of costs vs benefits for crime fighting methods like face recognition.
Perhaps a rule like "first do no harm"?
The continued knock-on affects of technology going back as far as 1939 "within this claim of general faithful duplication, "flesh" always comes to mean Caucasian skin tones." as documented in "Whole Technology of Dyeing: A Note on Ideology and the Apparatus of the
Chromatic Moving Image" https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025012.pdf
Does it mean that in African countries?
Read the linked paper, rephrase the question and ask again.
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First thing I thought on seeing the headline too. Do they not have editors?