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Comment by TheCoelacanth

6 years ago

You need a much higher standard standard of accuracy for facial recognition because it is applied indiscriminately to a large population. If it has 99.9% accuracy and you apply it to a population of 10,000 people, you will get on average 10 false positives.

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