Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Computer Say Arrest

There will be more and more of this

Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.

The guy says the cops obviously knew he was the wrong guy but didn’t care. They took him anyway and weren't in any hurry to release him

And of course in our database society, such arrests will follow people forever.