Facial recognition software fails legal tests if used with large datasets. It does so b/c software does not discriminate in the same way the human mind does.
For example, some facial recognition software identifies this picture of a man wearing glasses as actress Milla Jovovitch:
Fry's book shows how/why facial recognition software simply does not work well enough to use in police work. She provides the studies and footnotes them. As Fry says:
"If you're searching for a particular criminal in digital line-up of millions...the best-case scenario is that you won't find the right person one in six times...". That is not nearly good enough for law enforcement and the courts.
For example, some facial recognition software identifies this picture of a man wearing glasses as actress Milla Jovovitch:
https://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Being-Human-Algorithms/dp...
Fry's book shows how/why facial recognition software simply does not work well enough to use in police work. She provides the studies and footnotes them. As Fry says:
"If you're searching for a particular criminal in digital line-up of millions...the best-case scenario is that you won't find the right person one in six times...". That is not nearly good enough for law enforcement and the courts.
-from "Hello World" by Hannah Fry
By the author of the article:
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Hannah Fry https://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Being-Human-Algorithms/dp...
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty - Ian Stewart https://www.amazon.com/Dice-Play-God-Mathematics-Uncertainty...
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data - David Spiegelhalter https://www.amazon.com/Art-Statistics-How-Learn-Data/dp/1541...