This is the third time that I’ve seen something like this, so I thought I’d bring attention to it.
Biometric Update recently published a story about a United Kingdom agency that was criticized for its use of Cognitec facial recognition software.
Why? Because the facial recognition software the agency has is not accurate enough, particularly in regards to demographic bias.
Note “the facial recognition software the agency has.” There’s a story here.
“Cognitec released its FaceVACS-DBScan 5.5 software for biometrics matching at scale in 2020….The current version is 5.9, but Home Office’s Police National Database uses 5.5, which is why that version was tested.”
Important clarification.
Now perhaps the agency had its reasons for not upgrading the Cognitec software.
But governments and enterprises should not use old facial recognition software. Unless they have to run the software on computers running PC-DOS. Then they have other problems.
And if you detected that this post sounds really really similar to one I wrote back in April…you’re right. Back then an Australian agency continued to use an older version of the Cognitec algorithm, even though a newer one was available.
But I’m still using the pre-Nano Banana illustration for this new post.
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