Study Casts Doubts on Police Use of , Facial Recognition Technology .<br />Gizmodo reports that a landmark report on facial <br />recognition has found that law enforcement agencies <br />are using the technology as the sole grounds for arrests. .<br />Gizmodo reports that a landmark report on facial <br />recognition has found that law enforcement agencies <br />are using the technology as the sole grounds for arrests. .<br />The report by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & <br />Technology identifies a number of flaws that include <br />technical shortcomings and human error.<br />The report by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & <br />Technology identifies a number of flaws that include <br />technical shortcomings and human error.<br />According to the authors, the technology has a multitude <br />of technical shortcomings detailed in the report, titled , 'A Forensic Without the Science: Face Recognition in U.S. Criminal Investigations.'.<br />Police have used face recognition for more <br />than 20 years based on the assumption <br />that it is a reliable identification tool, Clare Garvie, Report author and distinguished fellow <br />at the Center on Privacy & Technology, via 'Gizmodo'.<br />Not only has that assumption never been <br />tested, there is every reason to posit that <br />face recognition doesn’t produce reliable <br />leads and in fact may put people at risk <br />of misidentification and wrongful arrest, Clare Garvie, Report author and distinguished fellow <br />at the Center on Privacy & Technology, via 'Gizmodo'.<br />'Gizmodo' reports that numerous studies have found <br />that facial recognition is less accurate when <br />attempting to identify women and people of color.<br />These problems have been found to be so <br />severe that some experts have reportedly called <br />for the technology to be banned altogether.<br />Over its past 20 years of use, <br />face recognition algorithms <br />have improved, but the people <br />running the searches have not, Clare Garvie, Report author and distinguished fellow <br />at the Center on Privacy & Technology, via 'Gizmodo'.<br />There is still a tendency to place undue faith <br />in an artificial neutral, mathematics-based <br />approach to solving hard problems or <br />eliminating human error from decision-<br />making. This is the wrong approach, Clare Garvie, Report author and distinguished fellow <br />at the Center on Privacy & Technology, via 'Gizmodo'.<br />There is still a tendency to place undue faith <br />in an artificial neutral, mathematics-based <br />approach to solving hard problems or <br />eliminating human error from decision-<br />making. This is the wrong approach, Clare Garvie, Report author and distinguished fellow <br />at the Center on Privacy & Technology, via 'Gizmodo'
