Reid was released on December 1st.
Reid had not only never visited the state, the person the facial recognition systems mistook weighed 40 pounds less and had a mole on his face. The crook, and his partner in crime, stole $10,000 worth of luxury Chanel and Louis Vuitton purses over the course of several days, to which Reid was later falsely associated with.
Reid has now pressed charges since the mix-up; and with him being a black man, Reid’s lawyer Tommy Calogero says this sheds new light on the flaws of this technology, and how it results in a ‘higher rate of misidentification of people of color.’
They told me I had a warrant out of Jefferson Parish. I said, ‘What is Jefferson Parish?’ I have never been to Louisiana a day in my life. Then they told me it was for theft. So not only have I not been to Louisiana, I also don’t steal.
Reid told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.
SEE: World Economic Forum Promotes Facial Recognition For Police, And To Make FRT More ‘Responsible’
I think they realized they went out on a limb making an arrest based on a face.
Calogero added
Cyber News further explained:
It’s unclear how exactly the authorities in Louisiana are using facial recognition technology. But in July, New Orleans City Council voted to allow police to use facial recognition after several people complained about privacy issues.
Police can use facial recognition to identify suspects of violent crimes after all other tactics fail. The tool can only be used to generate leads, and officers must get approval from department officials before lodging a request through the Louisiana State Analytic and Fusion Exchange in Baton Rouge.
Besides, all possible matches must undergo a peer review by other facial recognition investigators. It’s not known whether this was done in Reid’s case.
However, activists and researchers have claimed the potential for errors while using the technology is too great and that mistakes could result in the jailing of innocent people.
Experts also claim that the technology could be used to create databases that may be hacked or inappropriately used, for instance, in mass surveillance deployed by authoritarian regimes or dictatorships.
SEE: Clearview AI Granted Patent To Create Biometric Facial Recognition System
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalm 33:10
Ah yes, “smart” devices, o’ what intelligence they have!
Clearly the smart and artificial intelligence agenda is nothing but a bag of lemons. All this so-called precision, pinpoint accuracy is a pipe dream. Yes, it is true this technology can be scarily accurate, and it can also be hilariously wrong. Fortunately for this man he only had to spend 6 days in the slammer, but just think of all the other people that have probably wrongfully locked-up much longer because of all this AI.
This coming smart city “utopia” will be nothing but a total mess where hardly anything works as seamless as ‘they’ touted it would be.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Smart device my foot, it’s dumber than a box of chewed up erasers!
This is one more step for the mark of the beast system, I bet.
Brandy Fox, this is not the place to promote your scam! The owner will have you removed promptly.
I hope this misidentified man can sue and get some very big bucks so this technology will not want to be touched with a ten-foot pole. Hearing about glitches in these beast AI systems makes my day.