Andy Greenberg

Police used a DNA sample to extrapolate the supposed face of a murder suspect—a controversial technique.

Then they tried to feed *that* pic into face recognition software to get an ID. Total pseudoscience.

Wild find by @dmehro in @ddosecrets’s Blue Leaks.

https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It

Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

WIRED
Jan 22, 2024 at 2:41pmWeb
Show threadIchinin   ✅🎯🙄Jan 22, 2024
@agreenberg
So - they had DNA and they couldn't do a familial dna match and look for relatives who could tell them who it is?
Show threadLyainnaJan 24, 2024
@agreenberg @ddosecrets As someone who is biracial but presents white despite most of my DNA matching my spern donor... that's a horrible, horrible idea. The science isn't there yet. I physically look like my mom now, but when I was younger, she told me I was the image of my father except for skin tone.