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ACLU Examines Face-Recognition System

Posted by michael on from the candid-camera dept.

nate_drake and others wrote in about an ACLU report on face-recognition (PDF) (see also their press release and an MSNBC article). We've posted several previous stories about the Tampa police using face-recognition systems at the Super Bowl and on the streets of Ybor City.

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  1. salient points by nomadic · · Score: 4, Informative
    1. The system has never correctly identified a single face in its database of suspects, let alone resulted in any arrests.
    2. The system made many false positives, including such errors as confusing what were to a human easily identifiable male and female images.
    3. The photographic database contains a broader selection of the population than just criminals wanted by the police, including such people as those who might have "valuable intelligence" for the police, or who have criminal records.
    I wonder why they didn't mention that man who was a demo face for the system, and was subsequently misidentified then questioned as a felon. Guess it didn't make the logs.