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Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci…::Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.
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“As long as we can pin it on someone…”
They just look for anything to make the case… Ruining lives. It’s so dystopian and sad.
It’s a cold case of a single murder from 30 years ago. I thought they would use it on something more unique. Guess they thought it’s a way to silently normalize it via cases that are dead ends anyway to then bring it into a use on more recent stuff.
The vast majority of the world’s population is feeding this entire mass surveillance system with their valuable personal and behavioral data, often without realizing that this system they feed is already oppressing themselves in the present. All in exchange for exaggerated convenience
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That looks like the most average man possible. Surely no one will look like that except the perp.
It’s far too vague to be reliable. You notice how easily the facial construction became termed a “photo” as in “We have a photo of the suspect.” DNA is not going to have info on hair length, facial hair, if the suspect dyed their hair, or weight.
Algorithm printing the pig face as the most likely suspect:
Algorithm: “Police are much more likely to commit a crime.”
Police: “We’ve stopped using the algorithm because of inherit flaws in the code.”
This is an interesting idea. Absolutely worth looking into. But I wouldn’t approve it to use on active cases until the false positive rate was below 1:1000.
That would mean ~300k false positives with every search.
Nature VS nurture heavily implies this will never ever work
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Edit: on reading the article, I’m curious to know if anyone has actually gotten arrested or charged with a crime based on an algorithmically generated face which is then scanned though facial detection software.
According to a report released in September by the US Government Accountability Office, only 5 percent of the 196 FBI agents who have access to facial recognition technology from outside vendors have completed any training on how to properly use the tools. The report notes that the agency also lacks any internal policies for facial recognition to safeguard against privacy and civil liberties abuses.
How is this allowed?
Minority Report
