Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
by Reelin on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:45PM
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Sounds like the prosecutor's fallacy to me unless great care is taken to also consider lots of supplementary information when performing a match. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy)
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Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
by perl4ever on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:31PM
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Recommend reading the part about Sally Clark. The last two sentences are an incredibly short and understated horror story.
"Sally Clark was a practising solicitor before the conviction. After her three-year imprisonment she developed a number of serious psychiatric problems including serious alcohol dependency and died in 2007 from acute alcohol poisoning"