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To: rrufff who wrote (348)	11/10/2001 11:07:43 AM
From: Pluvia	Read Replies (1) of 536

FRAUDULENT PROMOTION #2 - “SNOOPERBOWL 2001” During last year’s Super Bowl in Tampa Bay FL, Viisage and the Tampa Bay Police department used Viisage’s facial recognition system in a test to compare faces of fans that attended the game with criminal suspects from a police database. In numerous interviews after the “Snooperbowl“ event, Viisage’s CEO Tom Colatosti intentionally misrepresented both the results of the test and the capabilities of the Facial Recognition system when he claimed the test was a “great success” and that “19 arrests were made”. Colatosti also made numerous references to 19 “hits” achieved by their system suggesting the “hits” had identified criminals: · FRAUD - September 17 VISG PR: “Our technology was used with great success at SuperBowl XXXV, where the security concerns were similar"; biz.yahoo.com · FRAUD - “Most notably, our face technology was used at the Super Bowl XXXV, one month ago in Tampa…” “…It was publicly reported that we obtained 19 image matches. This was a significant technological feat and has been widely acknowledged as being successful by the law enforcement community.” viisage.com · FRAUD - In an interview on the WFLA-AM 970's morning show Colatosti jubilantly promoted the” great success” of the Facial Recognition system at Snooperbowl claiming it had resulted in “19 arrests” pqasb.pqarchiver.com THE TRUTH – NO ARRESTS, NO PROOF OF CRIMINALS · Contrary to Viisage’s claims, during the Snooperbowl test there were no “arrests”. Furthermore, there were no stops to confirm the identity of the persons recognized by the Viisage system as “criminals”. Without stopping the individual and checking their identity, there is no way of knowing if persons recognized by the Viisage system were identified correctly or simply a “false match”. Contrary to Viisage’s claims, there was no evidence whatsoever supporting the claim that the Viisage system correctly identified a single criminal. · When the Viisage system generated a "hit" at the Superbowl, it showed side-by-side pictures of the person identified as a criminal at the turnstile with a picture from the database. Officer Bill Todd of the Tampa Bay Police Department who worked the “Snooperbowl” test stated: "I looked at some of those side-by-side pictures, and they weren’t of the same person". · DOD study results of Viisage’s facial recognition software proved the Viisage system would have statistically produced at least 19 false “hits” which would have had the effect of incorrectly identifying innocent persons as criminals in the “Snooperbowl” test. dodcounterdrug.com

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