San Diego police facial recognition didn't lead to a single arrest in 7 years - Business Insider

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A police department collected 65,000 face scans over 7 years — but it didn't lead to a single arrest

. While the tool has been heavily hyped for its potential to track people and identify possible suspects, Fast Company's findings call the effectiveness of facial recognition into question.

Critics of the technology have also pointed to studies suggesting that it's biased against women and people of color. A published last month found that facial recognition algorithms were up to 100 times more likely to misidentify black people and Asian people than white men, and women were more likely to be misidentified across the board.new California lawA spokesperson for San Diego police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The police department told Fast Company that the only biometric technology it would use going forward is fingerprint scans.

The city was one of the first major municipalities in the US to embrace facial recognition in 2013. At the time,, a nonprofit investigative outlet, reported the city's police heralded it as a boon to preventing crime. That prediction doesn't appear to have come to fruition. When California's facial recognition ban went into effect this month, a police spokesperson told

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