Russian police assault 15-year-old mistakenly identified by facial recognition system
Russian police physically assaulted a 15-year-old after a facial recognition system incorrectly identified the teenager as a person of interest. The incident is reported by Novaya Gazeta Europe.
Why this matters: A child got beaten because a machine was wrong and police acted on it without checking. That is the real cost of treating automated identification as proof. Facial recognition has documented error rates, and those errors fall hardest on the wrong people at the worst moments. When police use a system as a shortcut to force, someone has to be accountable for the outcome. Right now, in most places, nobody is.
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