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Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges (www.vice.com)

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Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges::A 61-year-old man alleges that a facial recognition algorithm used a mugshot from the 1980s to ID him in a crime he didn't commit.

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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

These pseudo identification systems have been around in police TV shows for 40 years, so of course a nobody in front of a system that says "there is a match" will get excited about it and won't change his mind. Unless it is a blonde young lady or grey haired old caucasian, the police won't have second thoughts either. What a fucked up reality