By Allaa Tayeb
Defective Detection
By Allaa Tayeb
Introduction:
“This is not me,” Robert Williams told police after they showed him a picture of a suspect accused of stealing $3,800 in watches from a retail store called Shinola. The officers detained Robert and held him for thirty hours after using facial recognition software to “match” surveillance footage of the accused thief to a database of images. “The computer says it’s you,” the officer told Robert. But unfortunately for Robert, the image really was not him. That day Robert became one of the many people wrongfully arrested due to misidentification, a not so uncommon fate created by increased use of facial recognition technology . . .Details:
| Publisher: | Journal of Law and Technology at Texas | Austin, TX |
| Citation(s): | Allaa Tayeb, Defective Detection, 6 J.L. & TECH. TEX. 77 (2022–23). |
| Related Organization(s): | The Journal of Law and Technology at Texas |
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