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Police using genealogy sites that family members used to catch people is fucked up too; even if it's for a good cause.

Interested to hear your views on what's wrong about that one. I mean generally the crimes their going after are pretty serious.
Summary: Police blindly assumed the name the software gave them was the guy, but if they'd actually looked at a photo and compared to the footage they would've been able to tell it wasn't him because of a visible mole and huge difference in body size, but they didn't so they arrested him and it took a week to correct it.
We could twist and try to blame facial recognition software, but the problem was the police. >

It's both.
The tech made the error, the police are taught to blindly trust their tech...like Michael Scott driving into a lake. >

Just like with drug test kits. Probably drug dogs too. >

Drug dogs are horrible. They respond to signals and cues by their handlers. Trainers can give a command to alert anywhere or to anything they want and the dog gets positive reinforcement for it.
Drug tests are much more reliable, but still not 100% >

Lol my brother's car got searched by a drug dog. The dog was completely uninterested in the car or the items from it (bag used to carry all the change he got from tips). 
Handler kept saying, "[dog], drugs!" And shoving the bag at the dog. It sniffed, walked off and peed on a lamppost.
Completely inappropriate behavior from the handler, good job for the dog, though. >

Lucky the dog didn't react to a command to alert >

I wouldn't just sue the police department, I'd be calling lawyers around the country to go directly after the company that sold the tech. >

So those “bans” which were so popular a few years ago are starting to expire with the expected results. >


Police in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, used facial recognition to secure an arrest warrant for 28-year-old Randal Reid for a $7,500 June purse robbery at a consignment shop in Metairie

So a $200 purse. >

WOW ARE THE COMMENTS HERE ALL OVER THE BOARD OR WHAT?
Frankly it boggles the mind that the police didn't check further then the facial recognition software. Even on traffic cams an officer normally has to check the video before a ticket is issued. >

Good lord we are turning into China. How is this allowed? I'm just glad I live in a state that still doesn't have cameras at intersections that can fine you automatically. Police using genealogy sites that family members used to catch people is fucked up too; even if it's for a good cause.