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High False Positive Rate by SWP's Facial Recognition Use at Champion's League Final
South Wales Police (SWP)’s automated facial recognition (AFR) at the Champion's League Final football game in Cardiff wrongly identified innocent people as potential matches at an extremely high false positive rate of more than 90%.
- Date it happened
- 2017-06-03
- Organisation involved
- South Wales Police
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