Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil
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An innocent woman was arrested today (while working in an informal job without any personally identifiable documentation) in Rio de Janeiro. The automated facial recognition systems (FRS) identified her as another woman, wanted for murder - it turns out the actual criminal is _already in jail_ and the police organization operating the FRS wasn't informed about it yet due to delays between the systems.
This is the second day of operation of the system, according to the press. However, a restricted version of the same FRS was used for 15 days during the Carnaval festivities with no alarming failures and reportedly resulted in a few arrests.
It has now been deployed in 25 locations in Copacabana. (Anedoctally, I live here and can't tell you where they are - the equipment, cameras, etc. must be well hidden, or I'm terrible at spotting them).
Source, in Portuguese: "Facial recognition fails in its second day and innocent woman confused with criminal is arrested" https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/reconhecimento-facial-falha-em-segundo-dia-mulher-inocente-confundida-com-criminosa-ja-presa-23798913
Related previous submission (with zero comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19074434
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