Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away (www.theguardian.com)
from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 23:12
https://sh.itjust.works/post/55916391

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.

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decapitae@sh.itjust.works on 25 Feb 23:16 next collapse

RIP actual police work - hello khakis dashboard for just-us

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Feb 02:26 collapse

Palantir is wonderful software.

runsmooth@kopitalk.net on 26 Feb 00:05 next collapse

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?

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world on 26 Feb 00:12 next collapse

Choudhury’s mugshot was held on the police system only because he had been wrongly arrested in 2021 when he had been attacked on a night out while at university in Portsmouth. The police released him with no further action. Now he has had a second mugshot taken he is afraid the automated system could trigger more wrongful arrests.

Sumocat@lemmy.world on 26 Feb 01:38 next collapse

Thames Valley police admitted to Choudhury the arrest “may have been the result of bias within facial recognition technology”. No, the bias wasn’t within the technology.

Akh@lemmy.world on 26 Feb 01:46 next collapse

Sue the facial recognition company under product liability

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Feb 01:46 next collapse

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.

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Feb 02:26 next collapse

“Age verification”

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 26 Feb 02:30 collapse

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.