Facial Recognition as a Pareto Technology

For context what Pareto means without having to Digg through the article:

> Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality is a situation where no individual or preference criterion can be better off without making at least one individual or preference criterion worse off or without any loss thereof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

I think Pareto has the answer why this won't work too. Pareto believed humans are not really rational in decision making but rationalizers.

We are not going to think this through rationally and then make a decision. Like always, it happens and then after the fact we will rationalize why we need more facial recognition.

Unfortunately it seems they will use the facial recognition excuse to jail and imprison the wrong people just like they did before the advent of facial recognition. It is simply an imperfect tool, and in the wrong hands a blunt instrument of punishment of the innocent. The recent example from New Jersey of a clearly innocent person being "framed" by the facial recognition excuse:

Parks claimed that as he sat in jail for 10 days, police and prosecutors didn't bother to check fingerprints and DNA at the scene that could have cleared him.

"Defendant police department was relying solely on the faulty and illegal [facial recognition software] or some analogous program while all evidence and forensics confirmed plaintiff had no relationship to the suspect for the crimes," according to Sexton.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-man-new-jersey-mi...