An aspect completely missed: human racial blindness. I write FR software, I am lead dev on a leading FR system. The biggest issue I see is a complete disregard

An aspect completely missed: human racial blindness. I write FR software, I am lead dev on a leading FR system. The biggest issue I see is a complete disregard for the responsibilities held by the operator of FR software. The operator of FR software has a huge responsibility, and #1 is the ability to distinguish between individuals of an ethnicity other than their own. A simple screening for this ability would be to present a series of photographs of near age siblings and cousins from a range of ethnic demographics. If a person cannot distinguish with absolute accuracy between the photos, they should not be the operator of FR software being used for any life situation altering analysis. The FR operator's job is to be the final verification for the FR software; if they cannot do this task, they should not be the operator. A secondary requirement for any FR software operator is the recognition of the simple fact that the individual being search may not be in the FR database, and any results presented are just similar appearances, and not the search target. These issues are common sense, but common sense is not common anymore.