SurveillanceMedium
High False Positive Rate by SWP's Facial Recognition Use at Champion's League Final
- Occurred
- Jun 3, 2017
- Published
- Oct 31, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
South Wales Police (SWP)’s automated facial recognition (AFR) at the Champion's League Final football game in Cardiff wrongly identified innocent people as potential matches at an extremely high false positive rate of more than 90%.
Developers
- NEC
Deployers
- South Wales Police
Harmed parties
- FInals attendees
- falsely accused Finals attendees
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves automated facial recognition system with high false positive rate during public event.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8