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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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.
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.
Maybe they could’ve looked at the face on the ID?
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."
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.
The police found the person identified by the facial recognition and eyewitness, how would checking her ID help?
Obviously you would send both pictures to the police with the name and info of the matched suspect so there would be human confirmation.
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.
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.
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