Benton sheriff should impose strict oversight if county deploys facial recognition
The A.I. systems have notoriously struggled to correctly ID people with brown or black skin.
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The A.I. systems have notoriously struggled to correctly ID people with brown or black skin.
The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Artificial intelligence is being increasingly used by police forces, but critics are worried.
A Texas man filed a lawsuit on Jan. 18 claiming that he was wrongfully accused of stealing from a Sunglass Hut location in Houston. According to HuffPost, Harvey Murphy Jr., 61, is suing Macy’s and parent company EssilorLuxottica — the parent company of Sunglass Hut — for false imprisonment and negligence.
When two men robbed a Sunglass Hut in Houston on Jan. 22, 2022, 61-year-old Harvey Murphy Jr. was in a jail cell in California. AI identified him as the suspect.