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Government facial recognition technology has high failure rate according to documents
Morning Report
English - November 05, 2023 18:40 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Facial recognition technology has failed almost half the time in tests of a landmark government system called Identity Check.
Official information documents raise the prospect of it failing even more with Maori.
The Identity Check system is aimed at becoming the primary way New Zealanders verify who they are online, for access to thousands of public and private services, from benefits to banks.
Phil Pennington spoke to Susie Ferguson.