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Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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."

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[–] bad1080@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

and how many false positives in the other 29%?

[–] cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

For context: I once lived in roseville and worked in Sacramento. They shared radio and otaTV stations back when those were a thing. I have heard about (insane) people commuting to sf from there.

This isn't bumfuck nowhere.

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[–] Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 0 points 4 weeks ago

Get those criminals off the street.

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