Smile! You’re a Sex Offender!
Royal Palm Middle School, the school where during my eighth grade year 6 kids were expelled for bringing guns to school is trying out security cameras with facial recognition software to try and catch “sex offenders, missing children and alleged abductors”.
Now obviously the school has problems, but this is not the answer, as Ed Felton (Ooooo, Princeton!) points out at Abusable Tech because this technology currently has a false positive rate of 1%. This means that for every 100 people who walk in front of the camera, one of them will be falsely identified as an evildoer. Something tells me that a lot more than 100 people walk into that school every day, meaning several trips by police officers to the school every day to harass people that are actually innocent. Doesn’t seem worth it.
Plus, Sheriff Joe is involved, so it’s probably just a publicity thing.
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