Man sues Registry after license mistakenly revoked - The Boston Globe
Man sues Registry after license mistakenly revoked - The Boston Globe
“John H. Gass hadn’t had a traffic ticket in years, so the Natick resident was surprised this spring when he received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informing him to cease driving because his license had been revoked. I was shocked,’’ Gass said in a recent interview. “As far as I was concerned, I had done nothing wrong.’’ After frantic calls and a hearing with Registry officials, Gass learned the problem: An antiterrorism computerized facial recognition system that scans a database of millions of state driver’s license images had picked his as a possible fraud.”
via Penal code: The coming world of trial by algorithm - tech - 06 September 2013 - New Scientist