US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.
According to The New York Times, this incident is the sixth recent reported case where an individual was falsely accused as a result of facial recognition technology used by police, and the third to take place in Detroit.
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US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.
This is super common. US law enforcement loves, loves, loves $2 drug tests that react to pretty much anything (including glazed donut sugar and human ashes out of an urn). It serves them as a common method to establish probable cause and end-run around the forth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
So yeah, inaccurate facial recognition gives them grounds to harass innocent Americans and search them to see what crimes they have committed, or they can be pressured to commit (e.g. resisting arrest)