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Warning: A city council meeting in Austin changed how I think about facial recognition
I went to a public meeting about police tech six months ago, and they showed a demo of a system that could scan a crowd and match faces against a database with 95% accuracy. The police chief said it would 'solve crimes faster,' but a woman stood up and asked, 'What if it's wrong about my son?' That question stuck with me. Has anyone else seen this tech get rolled out in their town, and what did people say about it?
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sethm4614h ago
Did they try that in Dallas too?
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angela_harrisjust now
Solve crimes faster" is a scary way to put it when it means one in twenty people could be wrongly targeted. That woman's question about her son is the whole problem right there. They never have a good answer for that.
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