It’s sort of the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument. It just gives a shitty cop cover to keep being shitty. The tools should be improved to eliminate that cover unless it’s far more accurate.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m going to buck the trend here and say this is less about the facial recognition software. The police used an 8 year old photo even though they had something more recent available. Then the victim identifies the woman. The only thing the software did was put her in the lineup.
I’m very much against facial recognition, even if it’s 100% accurate. It’s because it will get abused. Just like any other tech that reduces privacy.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 year ago
Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable at picking people out of a lineup as well. But I can kind of understand how if two unreliable systems point to the same person, that could be seen as enough for an arrest. It shouldn’t have taken nearly as long for her to be cleared of any charges, however.