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A maintenance worker has been charged with aiding a jailbreak in New Orleans as a new controversy erupts over a facial recognition system using artificial intelligence to search for criminal suspects
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The jail worker allegedly helped 10 inmates escape from Orleans Parish Prison early Friday
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Six of those inmates, including one who was accused in a double homicide, remain at large
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Authorities have suspected from the start that the escapees had inside help
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Surveillance video from the French Quarter shows two of the escaped inmates walking down a street Friday morning wearing black hoodies and gray pants rather than their jail uniforms
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The use of such video is under scrutiny after The Washington Post reported that the New Orleans police have used a private network of cameras to scour the streets for possible suspects
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Police say it helps get dangerous criminals, including one of the escapees, off the streets
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New Orleans Police Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick addressed the matter during a news conference
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This is the exact reason why facial recognition technology is so critical and is well within our boundaries of the ordinance here because we are allowed to use facial recognition technology in an event just like this
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And so we are already using our technology to leverage and help us
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And I believe that was how we got an identification. But civil liberties advocates say their surveillance system
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apparently the most robust in the United States, causes an unwarranted invasion of privacy
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Kirkpatrick had put the system on pause weeks before Friday's jailbreak. To stay up to date on all your latest headlines like this, completely unbiased
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