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I used to think facial recognition was fine for public safety, but a thing in my town changed my mind
Our local police in Springfield quietly started using it for crowd monitoring at the summer fair last year, and they arrested a guy just because the system flagged him as a match from a grainy old photo. I looked into it and the error rate for people who look like him is way too high, so now I think we need to ban it in public spaces completely. Does anyone have solid data on how often these false matches actually lead to charges being dropped?
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the_ryan1mo ago
How often does that happen in court?
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robert_anderson691mo ago
Yeah, that's the scary part, @the_ryan. The data on dropped charges is messy because a lot of people just take a plea deal to avoid the hassle. So the real failure rate is probably hidden.
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