Amazon: Cops should set confidence level on facial recognition to 99%
In the wake of the ongoing kerfuffle between the American Civil Liberties Union and Amazon, the tech giant has now responded more fully to accusations that its facial recognition system, Rekognition, wrongly identified 28 members of Congress as arrestees in an ACLU test last week.
Matt Wood, Amazon's general manager for deep learning and artificial intelligence, wrote in a blog post last Friday that while the ACLU used the default setting of an 80-percent confidence level, the company recommends a far higher setting "for use cases where highly accurate face similarity matches are important."
"We continue to recommend that customers do not use less than 99 percent confidence levels for law enforcement matches, and then to only use the matches as one input across others that make sense for each agency," he wrote.
Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments