Facial recognition tech booms despite accuracy concerns. Police arrests surge while airports and restaurants trial facial payments and passport-free travel.

A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve got an extremely common-looking face in a major city.

    Indeed, it’s likely to be a problem, if you stick with committing few or no crimes.

    The good news is that, should you choose to commit an above-average number of crimes, then the system will be prone to under-report you.

    So that’s nice. /sarcasm, I’m not actually advocating for more crimes. Though I am pointing out that maybe the folks installing these things aren’t incentivising the behavior they want.