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Police risk arresting innocent people if they treat facial-recognition matches as evidence without checking them, The Guardian reports, citing an official watchdog report. It says ethnic minorities face particular risk.
Why it mattersThe report found that some officers acted on potential matches from retrospective searches without making enough checks. It also found that operators do not always realise further enquiries are needed to verify the data. That makes the issue more than a question of whether the software produces a match: human checks determine what happens next.
Discuss: What safeguards should be mandatory before a facial-recognition match can influence an arrest?
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