Brazilian football fan wrongly arrested using facial recognition
Police using facial recognition to identify football fans in Brazil with open arrest warrants wrongly arrested a Confiança fan, triggering a backlash on social media and a police apology. Personal trainer João Antônio and his 16-year-old younger brother had been watching a football match between Confiança and Sergipe when the former was handcuffed and taken to a room to prove his identity on the basis that the facial recognit ion system used by the police indicated that he had an open arrest warrant . He was subsequently released. The incident was described by t he boys as embarrasing and humiliating and sparked accusations from civil rights and privacy advocates of 'structural' human and algorithmic racism. Local police apologised, saying a suspect is only approached when alerted of a 90 percent potential match by their facial recognition system. System 🤖 Unknown Operator: Developer: Country: Brazil Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Verify identity Technology: Facial recogn ition Issue: Accuracy /reliability; Human/civil rights
- Date it happened
- 2024-04-01
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