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Re:One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in... by mdp2021 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:59AM (#49854266)
> the police has no fault

Gross lack of due diligence: it has full fault.

Untrained officials: graver systemic fault.

> company, are totally innocent

How clear is the uncertainty of the output?

Re:One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in... by krisoft on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:24AM (#49855481)
> How clear is the uncertainty of the output?

It is not even clear from the article that there were anything wrong with the output. She has a car of that make. And it doesnt appear to be in dispute that she drove nearby.

It simply is the case that “being nearby” in itself is not enough evidence that you were involved in a crash. Especially when the colour doesn’t match and the vehicle is not damaged.

Re:One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in... by LorenPechtel on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:18AM (#49867392)
The fundamental problem here is that the police are very bad about false positives. Flock gives them a ton of data--but that doesn't make it magically perfect. No surprise there was a similar car nearby--there are a lot of similar cars. Flock shows them the similar cars and they pick the closest without any investigation.