Three arrests in Cambridge by police using facial recognition
Police in Cambridge made three arrests using facial recognition technology, according to a BBC report. No further details about the suspects, the crimes involved, or the specific facial recognition system used were included in the available information.
Why this matters: Every time police use facial recognition to make an arrest, two things are true at once: it may have worked, and you still do not know how often it does not. Facial recognition has a documented accuracy problem with darker skin tones. An arrest is not a conviction, but it changes a person's life. Cambridge residents now live in a city where their face, captured in public, can be matched against a database and lead to handcuffs. That is worth knowing clearly, not buried in a press release about successful policing.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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