Emeritus Prof Christopher May@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
Is the roll-out of an expanded police capacity for live facial recognition a welcome move to catch criminals or the expansion of the surveillance state, which will be deployed not against criminals but against protestors? Or perhaps, both?
Do you trust the police to use the technology only in ways that enhance the safety of the public, rather than using it to further the growing attrition on protest we have seen across the country in the last few years?
#politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
Police? Maybe. Iād hope that police could at least be trained to understand the false positive rates in these systems and their limitations. And, with proper accountability (hahahaha), some incentives could be created to discourage inappropriate use.
Iām far more concerned about juries and malicious prosecutors. As we saw with DNA evidence, most juries do not understand statistics well enough to properly evaluate this kind of evidence.