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It's interesting that they don't mention how/if they're avoiding false positives. I don't doubt that some people have exceptional facial recognition skills, but
by funkysquid 11y ago
It's interesting that they don't mention how/if they're avoiding false positives. I don't doubt that some people have exceptional facial recognition skills, but if they're given a face they haven't seen before, how likely are they to match that face with someone they have seen? How do they know that someone wearing a mask on a security camera is enough information for him to actually make an accurate match?
I'm worried this might be another case of police over estimating how effective something is (like hair DNA forensics) to make arrests, with innocent people paying for it.
- robk 11y agoThis really does seem plausible to me. Create a parallel construction scenario and it seems a lot more public friendly when they abuse their powers.
- paulsutter 11y agoYou're really on to something with parallel construction. Using Palantir they can map all the celltower data, etc, to find people who are present at the place and time of multiple crimes. But they don't want to explain all this in court. So they sit Constable Collins down with the video footage to parallel reconstruct evidence for the jury. And the PR department then decides to turn him into a super-hero with mythical powers, to further the cover. That makes a lot more sense to me.
- omginternets 11y agoMy first thought was to compare this to drug dogs in the US, who are trained and encouraged to render false positives as a means of delivering probable cause.