When I first heard about the “Florida man” facial recognition mismatch, I couldn’t tell whether the relevant police entity had arrested him based upon the facial recognition results alone, which is a big no-no. (Repeat after me: “investigative lead.”)
Chris Burt of Biometric Update repeated this:
“Shout it from the mountaintops: Probable cause cannot come from facial recognition alone.”
In his article, he also noted that the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office is cracking down on the relevant police entity:
“PCSO says in its response that it has entered into an MoU requiring [the relevant entity] to send its officers for training on facial recognition before they are allowed to use the system…”
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