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
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.
The photo had come from a fake Tennessee driver’s licence the suspect provided to officers at the scene of the theft, according to a police report submitted as a court exhibit in the civil case.
Two days later, an investigator emailed a Woodbridge detective a PDF file containing a “good possible hit on facial recognition,” according to court exhibits reviewed by CBC News.
“Idemia Face Expert will be used to aid human decision-making, not replace it,” Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said in a video posted online.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) earlier this year filed a court brief in support of Parks, stating “officers unreasonably relied on a shaky lead from fundamentally unreliable technology.”
In slides prepared for a 2018 presentation titled “Face Recognition Evaluation @ Idemia,” a representative wrote the company’s algorithm has the “same [false positive identification rate] for Black or white subjects, male or female.”
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There’s a good chance that this happened in part because they still haven’t ironed out the racial bias in the training data sets for these systems—Mr. Parks appears to be dark-skinned.
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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
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
The photo had come from a fake Tennessee driver’s licence the suspect provided to officers at the scene of the theft, according to a police report submitted as a court exhibit in the civil case.
Two days later, an investigator emailed a Woodbridge detective a PDF file containing a “good possible hit on facial recognition,” according to court exhibits reviewed by CBC News.
“Idemia Face Expert will be used to aid human decision-making, not replace it,” Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said in a video posted online.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) earlier this year filed a court brief in support of Parks, stating “officers unreasonably relied on a shaky lead from fundamentally unreliable technology.”
In slides prepared for a 2018 presentation titled “Face Recognition Evaluation @ Idemia,” a representative wrote the company’s algorithm has the “same [false positive identification rate] for Black or white subjects, male or female.”
The original article contains 1,030 words, the summary contains 184 words. Saved 82%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The obvious solution is to commit more than the average number of crimes of your fellow citizens.
Or, more specifically, more crimes than the average of your cohort of facial recognition doppelgangers.
That way, when the AI brings you to justice, it’s likely to be justice for a lesser crimes than the ones you already got away with.
(Sarcasm)
There’s a good chance that this happened in part because they still haven’t ironed out the racial bias in the training data sets for these systems—Mr. Parks appears to be dark-skinned.