This is very poor reporting. The paper has nothing to do with identifying who is in a low-res image. It's about scaling up low-res images by totally making up t

This is very poor reporting. The paper has nothing to do with identifying who is in a low-res image. It's about scaling up low-res images by totally making up the missing parts based on a statistical model. I guarantee the authors of this paper would be horrified by this article and how their work was mis-represented. The first paragraph of the research paper literally says "We demonstrate that this model produces a diversity of plausible high resolution images" The part at the end of the story about this being applied to CCTV images is especially misguided. But the bigger lesson here to all researchers is that they need to be aware that this is likely to happen with their work! They need to make sure they are communicating their work as clearly as possible to reduce the risk of this happening (maybe by posting a lay person-readable blog post to go with the paper that clearly says what it does and doesn't do).