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There's nothing wrong with deliberately having a high false positive rate. Airport security does that too. The problem is if you treat everyone who gets flagged up as irredeemably guilty even though you know you have a self-positive rate.

This would be akin to having airport security send anyone who sets off the metal scanner to a maximum security prison without right of appeal.



Very true, they definitely should dig a bit into their margins to provide a method of appealing the decision - I think it would actually help them quite a lot on the PR front, so it might be good even from a bottom line perspective.


> This would be akin to having airport security send anyone who sets off the metal scanner to a maximum security prison without right of appeal.

Not so loud, TSA will hear you.




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