I’m still laughing. Bezos is a fraud. His ‘products’ are flawed and buggy. He’s a manipulative opportunist who’s got too much power and too much influence on this country. He’s Bill Gates on steroids.

Amazon’s facial recognition matched 28 members of Congress to criminal mugshots

The American Civil Liberties Union tested Amazon’s facial recognition system — and the results were not good. To test the system’s accuracy, the ACLU scanned the faces of all 535 members of congress against 25,000 public mugshots, using Amazon’s open Rekognition API. None of the members of Congress were in the mugshot lineup, but Amazon’s system generated 28 false matches, a finding that the ACLU says raises serious concerns about Rekognition’s use by police.

“An identification — whether accurate or not — could cost people their freedom or even their lives,” the group said in an accompanying statement. “Congress must take these threats seriously, hit the brakes, and enact a moratorium on law enforcement use of face recognition.”

Reached by The Verge, an Amazon spokesperson attributed the results to poor calibration. The ACLU’s tests were performed using Rekognition’s default confidence threshold of 80 percent — but Amazon says it recommends at least a 95 percent threshold for law enforcement applications where a false ID might have more significant consequences.

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The test also raises concerns over how easily Rekognition can be deployed without oversight. All the ACLU’s data was collected from publicly available sources, including the 25,000 mug shots. (The organization declined to name the specific source for privacy reasons, but many states treat mug shots as public records.) Amazon’s system is also significantly cheaper than non-cloud-based offerings, charging the ACLU only $12.33 for the tests.

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“It’s not hypothetical,” says Jacob Snow, who organized the test for the ACLU of Northern California. “This is a situation where Rekognition is already being used.”

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/26/17615634/amazon-rekognit...

Just think, for less than$13.00 a pop you and yours could also enjoy having your privacy invaded and movements tracked wherever you go thanks to the world’s richest living person. You might even be falsely identified as a criminal.

And Jeff B. gets richer yet.