Algorithms · December 2025Gaffe level: Rampage
UK Police Facial Recognition Far More Likely to Falsely Match Black and Asian People
National Physical Laboratory testing of the UK police national database's facial recognition found false-positive rates of 0.04 percent for white subjects versus 4.0 percent for Asian and 5.5 percent for Black subjects, and 9.9 percent for Black women. The Home Office admitted the bias. A controlled study, not a single incident.
Source: The Guardian
Large Studies Show Liver Disease Can Be Tracked Without a Biopsy
Two large international LITMUS studies, published in The Lancet and Nature Medicine, benchmarked blood tests, ultrasound and MRI tools against liver biopsy in more than 1,500 and 350 patients. They point to a simpler diagnostic pathway that could spare many patients an invasive biopsy while still catching advanced liver scarring with confidence.
Source: Quicknews