mo4ch:>Farcical recognition tech? NYPD ‘used Woody Harrelson pic for beer thief search’ | Mo4ch News

Police in New York used a photo of actor Woody Harrelson to track down a lookalike beer thief, according to a report by Georgetown University researchers on the NYPD’s flawed facial recognition program.In a report called ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’, Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology said the incident is just one example of the police department’s flawed software. The NYPD have also used a photo of a New York Knicks player to search for a man wanted in connection to an assault in Brooklyn, the report claims.READ MORE: Big Brother backlash? San Francisco becomes first US city to ban facial recognitionThe study says security footage from the beer robbery was too pixelated to used by the NYPD software in search of the actual thief, however a search in the database using his three-time Oscar nominee lookalike turned up several possible matches and eventually led to one arrest.The NYPD says the facial recognition technology is merely a means of producing leads and no on…