SurveillanceMedium
Traffic Camera Misread Text on Pedestrian's Shirt as License Plate, Causing UK Officials to Issue Fine to an Unrelated Person
- Occurred
- Oct 18, 2021
- Published
- Oct 19, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Bath resident was wrongly fined by the local officials because an automated license plate recognition camera misread the text on her shirt as a license plate number.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Bath government
Harmed parties
- UK public
- Paula Knight
- Bath officials
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Automated surveillance system error caused wrongful fine to unrelated individual.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8