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Facial recognition hits and misses
Jan. 10th, 2023 03:26 pmKelly Conlon is an attorney in New Jersey. She accompanied her daughter's Girl Scout troop to a Rockette's Christmas show. And the venue's facial recognition system identified her as working for a law firm that is involved in litigation against a restaurant that is owned by Madison Square Garden, the owner of the Rockette's, and they kicked her out of the facility. Even though Conlon is not involved in the litigation against the restaurant or MSG.
Security intercepted her in the lobby and told her she had to leave the venue.
Continuing in the article, "Instead of attending the festive show with her daughter, Conlon waited outside. NBC reported that others who have been blacklisted have sued MSG over the policy, viewing it as MSG’s way of punishing law firms that go after the titan of entertainment. One firm so far has fought and won in court, becoming the only exception to the policy, but MSG is still appealing that decision."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
In a more interesting story, Randal Reid, a BLACK man - you can guess where this is going - in DeKalb County, GEORGIA, was pulled over and arrested for an outstanding warranty for grand theft of over $10,000 worth of Louis Vuitton and Chanel purses with stolen credit cards in - and you will be ever so surprised - Louisiana - after being identified by facial recognition systems.
Differences between Reid and the suspect: 40 lbs, the suspect has flabby arms and Reid does not, Reid has a mole on his face and the suspect does not, and a significant height difference. No one bothered taking Reid's vital statistics. Reid was held in jail for a week before being released.
Reid has never been to Louisiana.
How many millions of dollars is this going to cost the police departments of Georgia and Louisiana, or more accurately, the tax payers thereof, because of this idiocy?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/facial-recognition-error-led-to-wrongful-arrest-of-black-man-report-says/
The system used by the Louisiana law enforcement, Clearview, harvested literally billions of photos off of social media without permission and is notorious about terrible rates of false positives, especially when matching against minorities, the young, and women.
But hey! It's a tool that law enforcement can use to arrest black people! Let's keep on using it to close cases!
Security intercepted her in the lobby and told her she had to leave the venue.
Continuing in the article, "Instead of attending the festive show with her daughter, Conlon waited outside. NBC reported that others who have been blacklisted have sued MSG over the policy, viewing it as MSG’s way of punishing law firms that go after the titan of entertainment. One firm so far has fought and won in court, becoming the only exception to the policy, but MSG is still appealing that decision."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
In a more interesting story, Randal Reid, a BLACK man - you can guess where this is going - in DeKalb County, GEORGIA, was pulled over and arrested for an outstanding warranty for grand theft of over $10,000 worth of Louis Vuitton and Chanel purses with stolen credit cards in - and you will be ever so surprised - Louisiana - after being identified by facial recognition systems.
Differences between Reid and the suspect: 40 lbs, the suspect has flabby arms and Reid does not, Reid has a mole on his face and the suspect does not, and a significant height difference. No one bothered taking Reid's vital statistics. Reid was held in jail for a week before being released.
Reid has never been to Louisiana.
How many millions of dollars is this going to cost the police departments of Georgia and Louisiana, or more accurately, the tax payers thereof, because of this idiocy?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/facial-recognition-error-led-to-wrongful-arrest-of-black-man-report-says/
The system used by the Louisiana law enforcement, Clearview, harvested literally billions of photos off of social media without permission and is notorious about terrible rates of false positives, especially when matching against minorities, the young, and women.
But hey! It's a tool that law enforcement can use to arrest black people! Let's keep on using it to close cases!
