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Facial Recognition Fails in Boston, Too

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 2, 2003 @07:18AM from the see-no-evil dept.

bryan writes "Only a few weeks after cameras were found to be ineffective in catching criminals in Tampa, FL, a test of a facial-recognition system in Boston's Logan airport also came up disappointing. The cameras which were given photos of employees to detect, were only successful in 153 out of 249 random tests over the past year (about 61%). The article did not say how many false positives the tests generated. The companies involved were Indentix and Visage."

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Re:Wouldn't the false positive rate be more import by awch · 2003-09-02 07:58 · Score: 5, Informative

The ACLU web site has their release.
It quotes the Logan report saying, "the number of system-generated false positives was excessive."