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> Are these stories real? > The argument's too absurd for me to believe that it's being made in good-faith. It's the US, so I have no difficulty believing thi
by teh_klev 5y ago
> Are these stories real?
> The argument's too absurd for me to believe that it's being made in good-faith.
It's the US, so I have no difficulty believing this kind of thing can happen. All it needs is an overzealous DA office and state prosecutor with a hard-on for deploying these technologies to keep their conviction rates up (or think they can).
See also Aaron Schwartz, who thought things would get so dystopian for that young man, just for downloading a bunch of science papers?
- _Nat_ 5y agoI can't believe it. This is too much. All the facial-recognition software is supposed to do is point out similarities in pictures, and then humans can see if they agree. That's it. None of the silliness after that is due to the software, anymore than it's due to the security-camera that captured the grainy-footage in the first place.
- Piskvorrr 5y agoOf course the silliness is all in our heads, but having an excuse "Friend Computer says so!" enables 10x more silliness.
- furgooswft13 5y agoI don't think so. His point is that there are, surely, many more cases exactly like this (shoddy tips leading to wrongful detainment and subsequent poor treatment) where facial recognition software is completely absent from the picture. This man was not "Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition". He was wrongfully arrested (and criminally treated) by incompetent, capricious people and the bureaucracy that shields them. Bonus for the media outlets that could not care less about humanitarian rights violations or human dignity, but do have an axe to grind with Big Tech. An accurate headline would be: Man Wrongfully Arrested by Corrupt State Government Tells Corrupt Federal Government His Story