Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.

In 2023 and 2024, Flock sent 1,427 alerts to the Roseville [CA] Police Department.

Roseville police found that Flock misread license plates in 71% of those alerts.

Max Isaacs, director of technology law and policy with the Policing Project at New York University’s School of Law, described Roseville’s misread data as “stunning.”

“A 71% misread rate is really beyond the pale,” he told Business Insider, referring to Roseville’s reported error rate for stolen and felony vehicle alerts. He added that “in the absence of concrete rules that directly address the problem of misreads, this technology is not safe to be deployed in communities.”

  • NathanRanch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    19 小时前

    If it’s the responsibility of the party that’s been misidenified to correct the mistake, this was intentional. Putting fines to random people, knowing a proportion won’t fight it, is a foundationional pillar of Authoritarianism. What’s worse is even more work will now need to be done to undo and correc this, because it’s already in place. The lawmakers will try to get the percentage up, instead of removing the system.

    • Diurnambule@jlai.luEnglish
      111·
      9 小时前

      And then China got issue with speed trading. Competent IT people and math people where monopolized for doing fast trading, optimizing algorytme, systems etc. So China banned part of fast trading which triggered a brain migration into Ai. This made these expert work in ai field and they are now removing us competitive advantage buy open sourcing models. And us European are being depassed, Capitalisme and greed killed innovation.