15.10.2013 - 14:59 [ Techdirt ]

Facial Recognition Software That Returns Incorrect Results 20% Of The Time Is Good Enough For The FBI

Documents acquired by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) show the FBI rolled out a ton of new tech (under the name NGI — „Next Generation Identification“) with some very lax standards. While fingerprints are held to a more rigorous margin of error (5% max — which is still a 1-in-20 „acceptable“ failure rate), facial recognition is allowed much more leeway. (The TAR [True Acceptance Rate] details begin on page 247.)