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How a “smart camera” almost put an innocent man in jail.

Duration: 10min 48sec Type: Standup Playlist: 35 of 119 in Teplitsa

Description

To penetrate the secrets of the past and solve old cases, Russian security forces decided to resort to modern technology: facial recognition cameras. One such camera "recognized" a serial killer from the 2000s in hydrologist Alexander Tsvetkov, and investigators rushed to pin the case on him. But the scientist could not have been at the crime scene, and the accomplice who "identified" him described a completely different person. Why then do security forces so easily trust facial recognition data? And can it be trusted at all?