I remember posting a story about this awhile back, here's an update to it :)
Face-recognition technology designed to help catch known criminals proved ineffective during a two-month period, according to a report released Thursday by the America Civil Liberties Union.
Using state open-record laws, the civil liberties organization examined system logs at a Florida police department. It discovered that over a two-month period, the software failed to identify a single person photographed in the department's criminal database, according to the report. It added that the software produced many false identifications.
The ACLU said it also found that the police department, which installed the software in Ybor City, Fla., stopped using the technology in August. The software from New Jersey-based Visionics was halted in use just two months into a 12-month trial.
Representatives from the police department, based in nearby Tampa, were not immediately available for comment.
News source: ZDNet News - ACLU frowns on face-recognition tool
