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Facial Recognition Fail: Detroit Forced To Pay $300K To Man AI Falsely Recognised As Thief
The City of Detroit has agreed to pay a man $300,000 in a settlement after the city police's facial recognition software wrongly identified him and accused him of shoplifting. The city will also revise its policies on how law enforcement uses facial recognition technology to solve crimes.The lawsuit settlement involving citizen Robert Williams came from
Facial recognition to play key role in UK shoplifting crackdown
The UK government is investing £55m in expanding the police’s use of facial-recognition systems, including a fleet of vans to scan crowded high streets, as part of a crackdown on shoplifters. Announced alongside plans to give tougher punishments to serial or abusive shoplifters in England and Wales, as well as a standalone criminal offence for
WHO recognition of noma as a neglected tropical disease bolsters control efforts
Brazzaville – The landmark decision by World Health Organization (WHO) to recognize noma (cancrum oris) as one of the neglected tropical diseases will help boost efforts to end the devastating disease especially in the African region which bears the highest burden globally. Noma is a rapidly progressing severe gangrenous disease of the mouth and the
Recognition for that extra mile leads to improved job performance, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Who doesn't like to be noticed by their company for going above and beyond the call at work, especially if there's bonus pay? Yet, subjective performance evaluations can lead to feelings of unfairness when they're not in an employee's favor. That's partly why managers need to tread carefully when deciding how
Facial Recognition Plan from IRS Raises Big Concerns
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is planning to require citizens to create accounts with a private facial recognition company in order to file taxes online. The IRS is joining a growing number of federal and state agencies that have contracted…