BBC Not Asking FAR and FRR
BBC has reported this worrying news — “Why this face recognition firm is so controversial https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-61123510
Am I alone in feeling horrified to imagine that I might be wrongly identified as someone else whereas I am unaware of it?
Am I alone in being curious to know how many of the global population can be wrongly identified as the target person?
We should be worried about one aspect of privacy issue if the empirical/measured FAR are very close to zero as against the global population as taken up in this BBC report.
On the other hand, if the FAR are away from zero, we should be worried about another aspect of privacy issue, say, the probabilities of us being identified as an unknown person without our knowledge.
How is it possible for BBC to not ask Clearview AI what are the empirical/measured rates of false acceptance rates (FAR) and the corresponding false rejection rates (FRR) prior to talking powerfulness, creepiness and controversy over the technology?
Or, by any chance, are all those people talking biometrics without the knowledge of what FAR and FRR are?
This situation is worrying, isn’t it?
Ref: “Get graphs to talk the nature of probabilistic biometrics”
