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danger_davis t1_je3bvib wrote

The problem is that I want criminals to be caught but I don't want a police state hampering freedoms. Traffic cameras and pictures taken from open internet sources don't bother me. If they were snooping into my Google drive or Apple account without a warrant that is where I would be livid. But if I create a Facebook page with my face on the front photo I am not going to be upset when the government is able to see that photo. There is no expectation of privacy there.

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bananafobe t1_je3bchy wrote

>If you publicly post something that ties you to an illegal activity, that's on you.

I think this is part of the issue. It's not necessarily posting photos of yourself committing crimes, but rather a potentially flawed program using a database of unrelated photos to link you to a crime that you may have had nothing to do with.

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Has_hog t1_je3avub wrote

Also, the cops (DA, a type of cop) were so busy being cops it took them 5 years to charge this guy. Which makes sense because cops are busy and typically don’t like pressing charges against cops. Luckily the ex had hired a really annoying and committed lawyer who wouldn’t stop pestering them about this whole fake rape story thing so they decided to do their jobs.

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tallbartender t1_je39oij wrote

From the article "Clearview allows the customer to upload a photo of a face and find matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.

It then provides links to where matching images appear online. It is considered one of the most powerful and accurate facial recognition companies in the world."

For people (like me) who don't want to read the article, but just want to know what's going on.

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bananafobe t1_je39ig8 wrote

At the same time, that perceived accuracy can mean a false positive is less likely to be questioned, compared to an eye witness whose testimony can be interrogated.

A defense attorney asking a jury to consider whether a witness's recollection seems trustworthy can appeal to a juror's experience with their own memory being unreliable. A defense attorney trying to explain a statistical probability resulting from AI coding has an uphill battle, given how many of us basically assume computers are magic.

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