Congress Asks Experts for Guidance on Facial Recognition Law enforcement uses facial recognition systems with little oversight and, at times, disastrous impact. During a congressional hearing this week, members and experts talked through how new laws could head off greater harm. July 14, 2021 • 1/1: Robert Williams testified during a July 13, 2021 hearing about his undeserved arrest after a police-used facial recongnition system mistook him for a different man. (Screen shot) When a police detective called his cellphone in January last year to advise Robert Williams turn himself in, he thought it was a prank. His wife’s call to the local police department confirmed they had no warrant for him. But when the 43-year-old, Farmington Hills, Mich., resident