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Doesn't that make it worse though? Drum up false charges and they get automagically mapped to the face with nobody able to undo anything. They're now forever a

• zo1 5y ago
  This is precisely why the "fear" or rather stigma around facial-recognition needs to go away. If it weren't there, it'd have been expected and granted that the government's job is to have valid, verified and correct biometric information on the citizen (because they're generally the ultimate/final custodian of people's identity), and the facial-recognition would have to match against that verified data, instead of some random video or fake ID. So instead we have scattered silos of partial and probably incorrect data in various places. FBI has a bit, Police department in state X has one, State Y's DMV has something wrong because X years ago this person was a victim of identity fraud, etc etc. It's a giant mess and no wonder the police and various entities in this example failed utterly. They're ultimately all victims of a system that has no single source of truth, yet we're tasking them with using "tech" to solve crime. So instead of fixing the source of truth, we blame the tech.
  • A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
    The stigma is there, because if it was in one centralized database, the issue would be much more pronounced. It is a lot easier to destroy a company than a government.
• mattmcknight 5y ago
  In this case, it's really the problems of names, not faces. The wrong name got attached to the charge, but the right face.