106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?

Some 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. every year. Thousands of bodies lie unclaimed and unidentified in American morgues. Facial recognition software could put a name to these faces, so why hasn’t it?

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