Prison Voice Prints: Will They Include Defense Attorneys, Too?

Prisons are now adopting technology to capture voice prints of prisoners, sometimes using coercive means to do so.

As is the case with any government program to acquire personal information, the potential for abuse is there.

...civil liberties advocates argue that the biometric buildup has been neither transparent nor consensual. Some jurisdictions, for example, limit incarcerated people’s phone access if they refuse to enroll in the voice recognition system, while others enroll incarcerated people without their knowledge. Once the data exists, they note, it could potentially be used by other agencies, without any say from the public.