ACLU Report Finds Florida�s Facial Recognition Foray a Failure
A report published by the ACLU has found that Florida�s experimentation with facial recognition technology to be a failure. The ACLU found that the system never correctly identified a suspect, that officials suspended the system on August 11, 2001, that many false positives were made by the system, and that the suspect database contained the names of persons who were sought for police intelligence rather than for committing a crime.Drawing a Blank: Tampa Police Records Reveal Poor Performance of Face-Recognition Technology, ACLU Press Release, January 3, 2002.
Drawing a Blank, ACLU Report on Facial Recognition Technology, January 3, 2002.
EPIC Face Recognition Web Page.
