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Re:Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by O... by pdkl95 on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:11PM (#19078143)
> It is another tool to justify police action

"We were following the AI leads" is the perfect excuse for parallel construction[1] (evidence laundering).

If Rekognition supports limiting the search to the people in a specific town (or other small group), it might be possible to force someone to be somewhere on the list of matches. That would give bad actors the perfect tool for manufacturing "probable cause".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

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Re:Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by O... by Spivak on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:50PM (#19079959)
If parallel construction is in your threat model then does the existence of a slightly better face search database really matter?
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Re:Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by O... by craftinator on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:22PM (#19080233)
Damn, beat me to it
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