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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by rhizome on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:34PM (#20367399)
An 81% false positive rate would be nightmarishly awful if this system served as judge, jury and executioner

This is a highly black-and-white way of thinking about the implications. "Heck, it's only a problem if they get executed."

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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by jimclegg on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:47PM (#20367446)
We should be careful before we unnecessarily increase the number of interactions between police and the general public.

For example, roadside drug test accuracy rate is abysmal but innocent people are being put in jail because uninformed LEO either don't know or don't care baout the rate. If you can't afford to fight the false charge, your life/record/job/etc is screwed.

Also, these false positives tend to have a conveniently racist default twist in our country.

"59% of the Houston defendants in drug arrests involving false positives were black.", I expect the number that didn't fight the charge and were wrongfully convicted is quite high as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside...

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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by rhizome on Sunday July 07, 2019 @12:44PM (#20375996)
>We should be careful before we unnecessarily increase the number of interactions between police and the general public

I'd say a society is more successful the more they strive to minimize law enforcement contact.

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