But, the project was suspended when residents began questioning whether the cameras provided by the vendor would be enabled to allow South Orange police to identify people using facial recognition technology.Although the technology is widely used in the private sector for workplace security and to unlock phones, its use by law enforcement is controversial.And it can be very invasive in terms of privacy.” The emergence of facial recognition technology is creating tension at a time when New Jersey has promised to overhaul its police tactics amid rising concerns about brutality in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.There’s also been numerous allegations of false arrests attributed to facial recognition, including one involving a Paterson man, Nijeer Parks, who alleged in a lawsuit he spent 10 days in jail in 2019 after Woodbridge Police arrested him for a crime he didn’t commit.In New Jersey, the ACLU, the state Office of the Public Defender and several Black Lives Matter chapters have called for a similar ban, but the technology remains legal and largely unregulated."