Friday, July 16, 2021

False Positives

 Which is to say, near-perfect reliability in laboratory tests sounds great, unless you spend 30 hours in jail because you're falsely tagged as a criminal by facial recognition technology. Real-world applications are messier than tests, and carry consequences in terms of liberty and, potentially, life when authorities respond to bogus alerts. [More]

Expect demands to make it mandatory for gun purchases.

[Via Michael G]

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