Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology::A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police detective after she was falsely arrested because of facial recognition technology while she was eight months pregnant, according to court documents.
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.
hoodlem@hoodlem.me 1 year ago
Facial recognition by law enforcement should be banned.
frankblack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well it does have its place. DoD and DHS has a human verify after the system certified the match. After the human “touch”, is when mistakes like this do not occur. What needs to happen is follow what DoD and CBP have created to verify so called matches to reduce the impact against blacks.
Source: I’m the former Identity Operations Manager for a major agency.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, fuck the surveillance state entirely.