Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci::Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

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    This is an interesting idea. Absolutely worth looking into. But I wouldn’t approve it to use on active cases until the false positive rate was below 1:1000.

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      That would mean ~300k false positives with every search.

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      Nature VS nurture heavily implies this will never ever work