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High False Positive Rate by SWP's Facial Recognition Use at Champion's League Final

AI Incident Database · article · Jul 11, 2017 · UTC

South Wales Police (SWP)’s automated facial recognition (AFR) at the Champion's League Final football game in Cardiff wrongly identified innocent people as potential matches at an extremely high false positive rate of more than 90%.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2017-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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