How Phone Face Recognition Works, and Why It Fails Differently in Policing

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Modern phones unlock with face recognition by projecting over 30,000 invisible infrared dots onto the face and reading their distortion to build a 3D depth map. That map is converted into a numeric embedding, which is compared against an enrolled template inside the phone's isolated Secure Enclave. The article contrasts this with police face-matching systems, citing the 2020 case in Detroit where Robert Williams was wrongly arrested after a computer match and held for about 30 hours. Detroit later settled his case for $300,000 and banned arrests based on a face match alone. The piece argues that phone and police systems perform fundamentally different jobs, which explains their very different reliability.

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