You never know what you’re going to find at a convention. At the 2019 IACP technology convention (International Association of Chiefs of Police), Electronic Frontier Foundation researcher Dave Maass found a facial recognition brochure from San Jose-based Vintra.io, which tagged both the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and the Sacramento Police Department as customers of their facial recognition software – Fulcrum AI.
Vintra’s website features their real-time facial recognition capacities, which include adding on to existing camera set-ups as well as Genentec brand license plate readers. More to come ….