Alvi Chowdhury
British software engineer who was wrongly identified by police facial recognition software and shares a first-person account of the arrest and its consequences.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 29min
How accurate is facial recognition software?
Associate Professor Catherine Kemp, a law and tech policy leader, outlines legal and privacy concerns with facial recognition. Alvi Chowdhury, a software engineer wrongly arrested after a match, shares his personal account. They discuss wrongful arrests, racial bias and error rates, retailers' use of real-time systems, failures in notification and oversight, and calls for stronger limits and human review.
