I have another story on a false arrest as a result of police use of facial recognition technology. This time, it was a woman who was 8 months pregnant. She was charged with robbery and carjacking for a crime committed two weeks earlier by a not visibly pregnant woman. You can read the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html?unlocked_article_code=qsFuuNKvnjIr6VoVXR3zV4AS1_jB8oyxiT3TEwCA6NuuAlx66Co8nU8kJ07djnLtjckQ7ZtehNThM7bCtGPjbrhlj8jUjFzp8QAA9UZ7I6N7gSoaXQzdB0alh_n_I-umkZ50fXwvrTLZzuDiMTwJYuW_w6X3OXr03k0POapGP7hfwT28eVMooxl-5nIhKpXwoJeaE6CR1BEQfUxMGIJz6I4tE-T_FuxBPXyZ8_krseECL7CFezED7hPZnrnaE2aImL8fAhYLdgicSdjZmCnAWXe6V8Ng-ujP9iZrah3XBjohulZGTNjwP1tPx25poO517VCgsm2V0ZO3LYZcbRv4-dByPva8YI2Zn3KM6g&smid=url-share
Or I did a thread on the x-bird site. https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/1688163609984069632
Yeah, no, not the same person. Did any human compare the photos before the arrest?
@awk @spradlig Yes, what Awk said. It's the same person, but the photo on the left was the one that came up as a potential match for the suspect (who I haven't seen a photo of) and it was the version shown to an eyewitness to confirm, rather than the more recent photo of Woodruff from her driver's license.
@spradlig It is the same person, just 8 years apart. They used the older photo for the facial recognition.
Sorry, I misunderstood the point of the photo. I hadn’t read the story.
@spradlig I guess it demonstrates the point that facial recognition is massively prone to error :-)
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Turns out it is the same person, but from eight years ago (so it might as well have been someone else). The old photo, on the left, was the one shown to the victim. The more resent photo on the right probably wasn't used in the incredibly superficial investigation.
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