Basically, these companies know that false positives happen. To them, it's just a statistic - they can afford to wrongly ban 0.1% of customers in the name of pr

Basically, these companies know that false positives happen. To them, it's just a statistic - they can afford to wrongly ban 0.1% of customers in the name of preventing abuse. But for the person they're wrongly banning, that's not so fun. I'm worried this will apply to more seriously some day. "This algorithm says you're guilty of a crime, and it's 99.8% accurate, which we've determined is acceptable, so there will be no way to appeal your verdict."