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.

  • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
    212·
    7 months ago

    And yet this woman was mistaken for a 19-year-old 🤔

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      220·
      7 months ago

      Shitty implementation doesn’t mean shitty concept, you’d think a site full of tech nerds would understand such a basic concept.

      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Pretty much everyone here agrees that it’s a shitty concept. Doesn’t solve anything and it’s a privacy nightmare.