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Reducing the search space from everyone in a crowd to 5 people seems...pretty great technology wise. I'm not sure what the problem is here. I mean, I get that
by darawk 7y ago
Reducing the search space from everyone in a crowd to 5 people seems...pretty great technology wise. I'm not sure what the problem is here.
I mean, I get that people don't like facial recognition for privacy reasons. But that seems totally orthogonal to this report, which is criticizing its efficacy, on very odd grounds.
- mikeash 7y agoI totally agree, if the users treat it accordingly. The trouble is when the police assume there’s a 99.9% chance that each flagged person is guilty because the system has a 0.1% false positive rate.
- mola 7y agoWhen you are on of a crowd, you don't get treated like a suspect. When you are 1 of five you get treated like a suspect. A criminal. That direct implications on your well being. 4 people out of 5 will be Innocents that get treated like criminals. I don't want to live in that world.
- sysbin 7y agoWe're already living in a worse world than that.
- darawk 7y agoOk...but that happens all the time. If you look like someone that just robbed a liquor store and you're in the area, cops will stop you until they can clear you as a suspect. This is how policing has always worked.
- duxup 7y agoIs a dragnet where everyone in a given area is checked even all that common? Seems unlikely. But with technology we can suddenly do it 24/7, numerous places, and for all sorts of crimes at the push of a button...the implications of that many people as suspects, that volume of innocent people accused seems pretty bad.
- cortesoft 7y agoIf you are black, you already live in that world.
- SkyBelow 7y agoMore so than if you are male?
- charlescearl 7y agoIn Britain, yes https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/stop-and-frisk-not-just-american-problem https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/stop-and-frisk...
- SkyBelow 7y agoI've only calculated it for the US, but the gender disparity was roughly 3 times the racial disparity. I'm not saying there isn't a racial disparity, I'm asking what are the numbers compared to gender disparity.
- keiru 7y agoPersonally, I'm wary of policemen and politicians trying to grasp probability. The general public's perception of the subject is not mature enough, and all these high tech sci-fi stuff is being introduced to a society were phishing is lucractive. I fear facial recognition as proof becoming validating in the public discourse, paving the way to the whole biomechanics crew, like gait analysis. The criminal justice system always had lots of false positives that go silent and unnoticed, simply because of exposure bias (you never hear about the guy they sent to prison for life again).
- tsss 7y agoImagine what the nazis could've done with a technology like this. Now realize that 30% of the people who control this technology today are nazis and the remaining 70% don't care what the nazis do or they would've already been fired for speaking out against the abuse.