Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
6 months ago by HellsBelle to c/world
Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.
Alvi Choudhury, 26, a software engineer, was working at the home he shares with his parents in Southampton in January when police knocked on his door, handcuffed him and held him in custody for nearly 10 hours before releasing him at 2am.
Thames Valley police had used automated facial recognition software which matched him with footage of a suspect of a £3,000 burglary 100 miles away in Milton Keynes, according to documents shared with the Guardian by Liberty Investigates.
But the CCTV footage showed a noticeably younger man with different features apart from similar curly hair, said Choudhury, who was left confused about why he had been arrested.
It’s established fact that these racial recognition systems do poorly with virtually any confounding factors, particularly darker skin colour.
10 hours. What the fuck.
The danger of using a product/system for a purpose it wasn't designed for or that didn't pass rigorous testing: poor reliability and serious errors.
Dope typo.
So police did not have to flag the file as AI generated, and don’t prioritize the review of these allegations by an actual human?
Did anyone tell that man he was unlawfully detained and has a civil claim against the government who knowingly and recklessly detained an innocent person?
Sounds like the police in Britain has automated arresting people for the "crime" of walking on the street whilst not looking white enough.
Not too far away now
Here's what I think the world needs.
Every citizen in every country gets 10 atomic bombs.
Ok so you falsely arrest this man. You don't release him now, because he'll just go get his atomic bombs.
But now his brother or his wife, or whomever, ALSO has atomic bombs. And they demand his release or else.
So NOW whenever anyone tries to do anything, they have to think. Will this make them use an atomic bomb?
And suddenly, police are a lot more careful. Corporations switch their gosls from profit, to citizen utopia. Can't make anyone mad ever.
And in a strange way, I find that to be far more peaceful. Nobody is an asshole or a bully anymore, because we'll ALL be blown up if one person snaps.
Maybe others are afraid of MAD. I was born into it. Raised in an environment where they say the russians could bomb us at anytime, and almost did multiple times.
I was raised to have nuclear bomb drills where they sound a siren, and thousznds of kids rushed into underground bunkers. We had fire drills, and tornado drills, and atomic bomb drills.
I imagine the kids who are like 20 today, are almost immune to fear of public shootings, because they grew up in the school shooting drill days. These kids could walk into a warzone, and dodge bullets like NEO. But nobody would even shoot a gun if anyone anywhere could nuke you.
You know there's literally death cultists out there trying to bring on the end of the world, right? We'd probably make it 6 hours
looks around at a world run by pedophiles, fascists, and abusers
......yeah, but is that really the worst idea?
It might be a terrible world, but it's the only one we have
If you want to leave, don't take out other people with you. I don't think you properly thought out the implications of your words, so I'll leave it at that
This is fucking insane and a terrible idea.
nukes EtnaAtsume
What would you do about those with mental illness, Intellectual Disabilities, zealots, and children? In other words, people who may not have the capacity, or in the case of zealots, to make rational decisions.
They all get nukes.
My children are fairly well behaved, and I would be nuked on day 1.
Certainly, and I'm in support of all the things that would need to happen to prevent the world from exploding. I just wish it happened without the stress and threat of bombs.
There was a short story where everyone got one legal murder
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