- Police in Argentina could arrest a Slovakian citizen who has been wanted for 10 years on suspicion of murder. This after his image emerged as a hit in INTERPOL's face recognition unit.
- A 31-year-old man who, according to the Chinese authorities, has been wanted for eco crime could be arrested - thanks to facial recognition technology that managed to identify the man among the entire 60,000 concert visitors in the city of Nanchang, the BBC writes.
- In the United States, police used facial recognition to identify the culprit behind the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette's editorial board in Annapolis, Maryland. The man refused to talk, had no identification and his fingerprints gave no hit. Then the police drove the man's photo through a signal register and found out who it was - Jarrod Ramos with the help of facial recognition technology.
- A less successful case is when the police in Southern Wales used the technology in connection with a UEFA Champions League final. Then the program received 2, 470 potential hits, but only 173 turned out to be correct. According to the police, no one was wrongly arrested for the abuse.
4 notable cases where facial recognition was used to find criminals
2019-10-29T20:24:38.779Z
In Sweden, the police have not yet begun to use face recognition to identify suspected criminals, but in China and the US, for example, this is a technique that has been used for a long time. Here are some successful and less successful examples.
Source: svt