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Facial Recognition Fails in Boston, Too

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Presumably faecal comparison would work better. by Magnus+Pym · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The trick is to get samples, though.

    Magnus.

  2. Re:Facial recognition ignores possible alterations by deeLo57 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You must be wicked retahead or not know
    Boston at all if you don't know about
    queeahs being wicked haahd to catch.
    Especailly during the Southie parade.
    Those queeahs can really bookit down the street