AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city’s ‘watch list’ of faces

By MATT O’BRIEN and GARANCE BURKE Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a “high risk” watch list in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a live test of whether facial recognition technology shunned as too intrusive could have a place in policing throughout North America. But six years after leading body camera maker Axon Enterprise, Inc. said police use of facial recognition technology posed serious et