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Re:Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate' by bigiain on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @08:38PM (#17079108)
Ask any #blacklivesmatter supporter just how effective police "normal safeguards" end up being... :-/
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Re:Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate' by Silhouette on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:18PM (#17079781)
Clearly policing in the US has some problems, and I'm not sure technology can fix them. However, this story isn't about the US.
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Re:Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate' by godelski on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:50PM (#17079897)
> Clearly policing in the [country] has some problems, and I'm not sure technology can fix them.

FTFY

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Re:Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate' by staticautomatic on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @09:01PM (#17079198)
Better yet, ask the data.
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Re:Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate' by Silhouette on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:28PM (#17079819)
The data reported in the article shows 0 incidents of wrongful arrest due to false positives. It also implies several hundred cases where the correct people were properly identified by the technology. There is plenty of room for debate about this technology, but so far, just saying "ask the data" doesn't seem to make the point you might have intended.
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Re:Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate' by bigiain on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @09:49PM (#17079380)
As well.

"Indigenous Australians account for 15 times as many offensive language offences as would be expected for their population."

http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AltLawJl/2004/53.html

:sigh:

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