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Facial Recognition Used by Wales Police Has 90 Percent False Positive Rate

posted by mrpg on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-more-safety-in-numbers dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow4408

Thousands of attendees of the 2017 Champions League final in Cardiff, Wales were mistakenly identified as potential criminals by facial recognition technology used by local law enforcement.

According to the Guardian, the South Wales police scanned the crowd of more than 170,000 people who traveled to the nation’s capital for the soccer match between Real Madrid and Juventus. The cameras identified 2,470 people as criminals.

Having that many potential lawbreakers in attendance might make sense if the event was, say, a convict convention, but seems pretty high for a soccer match. As it turned out, the cameras were a little overly-aggressive in trying to spot some bad guys. Of the potential criminals identified, 2,297 were wrongly labeled by the facial recognition software. That’s a 92 percent false positive rate.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @12:51PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @12:51PM (#678803)

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @12:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @12:56PM (#678805)

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    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @02:06PM (#678820)

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