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