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Re:Facial recognition rolled out by London police sparking h... by ben_w on Saturday June 30, 2018 @06:53AM (#17430341)
False positives vs false negatives. Most crimes are committed by young men, but most young men aren’t criminals. Same thing happened with medical tests for rare conditions — if you have rates of 5% false positive (0% false negative) and 1% criminality rate, then ~84% of those you shake up are innocent.

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