A New Jersey man who was wrongly jailed after being misidentified through facial recognition software has a message for two Ontario police agencies now using the same technology.
“There’s clear evidence that it doesn’t work,” Nijeer Parks said.
Parks, now 36, spent 10 days behind bars for a January 2019 theft and assault on a police officer that he didn’t commit. He said he was released after he provided evidence he was in another city, making a money transfer at the time of the offence. Prosecutors dropped the case the following November, according to an internal police report.
Investigators identified Parks as a suspect using facial recognition technology, according to police documents provided as part of a lawsuit filed by Parks’s lawyer against several defendants, including police and the mayor of Woodbridge, N.J. The lawsuit names French tech firm Idemia as the developer of the software.
Police in Peel and York regions, near Toronto, announced in late May they were jointly implementing Idemia’s technology, which they will use to compare existing mugshots with crime scene images of suspects and persons of interest.
Ohh, good idea. During the pandemic there was a company that could put your face on a mask, they may still, you submit a face pic and they print the appropriate portion on the mask
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So time to mask up and hide your face in public or lawyer up and sue for harassment and wrongful detainment.
Waitll someone starts committing crimes with a mask of the police chief and other police force members.
Ohh, good idea. During the pandemic there was a company that could put your face on a mask, they may still, you submit a face pic and they print the appropriate portion on the mask