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Auditors slam FBI for shoddy testing of facial-recog tech. But no big deal. It only has 641m images on its systems

tfewster

"...it only tested accuracy when a user requested a list of 50 possible matches to a source image..."

Does that mean what I think it means: It returns 50 possible matches, and 99% of the time one of them is a real match?

I've abused statistics a few times myself, but my gut would call that 2% accuracy.

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