UK Metro Police -- facial recognition = 98% false positives

hawki · May 15, 2018

"Metropolitan Police's automated facial recognition (AFR) technology has a 98 per cent false positive rate.

Zero arrests, 2 correct matches, no criminals: London cops' facial recog tech slammed..."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/15/met_police_slammed_inaccurate_facial_recognition/

Minimalist · Jul 3, 2018

Facial Recognition IDs Capital Gazette Shooter

Though controversial and riddled with problems of a high false positive rate, facial recognition software led to a big win for police in Annapolis, Maryland, after a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette left five journalists dead and others wounded when a gunman attacked the newsroom.

After police took the suspected gunman into custody, a fingerprint database returned no results. The man reportedly had no identification on his person and refused to speak to investigators. According to the Washington Post, investigators ran his photo in Maryland’s facial recognition database, the Maryland Image Repository System (MIRS), and the system returned a match.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/facial-recognition-ids-capital/

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