It’s not, but it might be enough to reduce the ridiculously high number of erroneous kidnappings detentions. Not that they give enough of a fuck to be embarrassed by their ineptitude, but even they recognize that screwing up so much only serves to give their critics (additional) legitimacy.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Considering that the US still does not have any kind of working national census, and only relies of the deeply flawed social security system for a national ID database, I wonder how accurate this system is
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Madison420@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
False positives are more common than false negatives.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They probably just use Facebook + LinkedIn or other public databases. I remember a project on hackafay of someone who did something similar and found with some basic programming, it's definitely possible to get some matches. But that was years ago.
machineunlearning@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
They are using the CBP database according to that article… who knows what version two will have though
dermanus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Considering they’re just looking for a pretext to arrest someone, I think it’s accurate enough for them.