Facial Recognition Policing

The cluster discusses police use of facial recognition for identifying suspects or victims from photos, including concerns about accuracy, false matches, framing risks, court admissibility, and comparisons to fingerprints.

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LinuxBender Jun 28, 2023 View on HN

You are a detective. There is a purported victim in front of you IRL. Can you verify said victim is the person in the picture? The decision you make may tear apart a family and destroy a persons life.

jlebrech Sep 25, 2017 View on HN

It can give possible matches, i don't think it would be admissible in court. they could still trick a confession out of someone using that image.

ryanlol Apr 23, 2019 View on HN

Maybe they could’ve looked at the face on the ID?

kurthr Jan 25, 2022 View on HN

It is so impossible that it is the actual use case they are selling?" The system found a match in the background of some photo taken at a trade show (the guy was working a both). It only knew the website the photo was from, which allowed the police the identify the trade show, which allowed them to track down the people working at that booth to find their suspect."

adolph Mar 11, 2023 View on HN

One day, that person witnesses a robbery. They try and take a photo of the robber, but the algorithm determines it was you on the photo and fixes it up to apply your face. Congratulations, you are now a robber.Sounds like pretty standard forensic science, like bite marks and fingerprints.

nateglims Aug 6, 2023 View on HN

The police found the person identified by the facial recognition and eyewitness, how would checking her ID help?

jQueryIsAwesome Dec 10, 2012 View on HN

Obviously you would send both pictures to the police with the name and info of the matched suspect so there would be human confirmation.

ficklepickle Sep 20, 2020 View on HN

Imgur strips exif by default. I agree it sounds like parallel construction.The article mentions they compared his finger prints to those from the picture. How did they know to check against his prints? Sounds like they already knew who it was, by means that aren't admissible as evidence.

zitterbewegung Feb 27, 2023 View on HN

This creates an anomaly on any surveillance to the point you will get exact time / date and you will be able to get people that can be asked what you look like.

yorby Feb 28, 2018 View on HN

If they don't tell anybody who they recognized in the pictures, it should be fine since you will never know? They do a lot more analysis in the background that they never publish anyways