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Facial recognition still can’t prove someone’s identity Stan Horaczek © Provided by Popular Science This is a stock image of a crowd from an unspecified event, but it s how many TV shows and movies depict facial recognition. On Wednesday night, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) took to the floor of the House to claim members of the mob that descended on the Capitol building earlier that day were “Antifa.” As proof, he simply asserted that there was “some pretty compelling evidence from a facial recognition company.” His statement likely traced back to a loosely-sourced, and now-deleted Washington Times article containing a claim that was later thoroughly debunked. Even though the article has been removed, however, the claim that facial recognition has proved the identity of these individuals echoes across social media and internet comment sections, all the while ignoring the fact that this isn’t even how facial recognition is meant to work in the fir

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