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It didn't lead SDPD to any person at all. It led them to a red Alfa Romeo with tinted windows.

Flock doesn't do facial recognition. It's a real-time search engine for cars on video feeds.

as I posted elsewhere, a tool that requires perfect human oversight to avoid harming innocent people is a problem

People are writing as if an ALPR directed these cops to arrest someone. No, it didn't. They asked it where they could find a red Alfa. It accurately told them. It's not the tool's fault it didn't occur to SDPD that there could in San Diego be in fact 2 red Alfas.

Is it also not the tool's fault that cops keep using it to stalk people?

https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using...

I'm inferring from the fact that you've now switched stories that you concede the point I was making. Thanks! I'm less interested in debating this new story you want to talk about.

That's pretty sad, because I was making the same point you still lack the rigor to comprehend... ah well

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