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.

  • CeeBee@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Yes, because like I said, nothing is ever perfect. There can always be a billion little things affecting each and every detection.

    A better statement would be “only one false detection out of 10 million”

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      5 months ago

      You want to know a better system?

      What if each person had some kind of physical passkey that linked them to their money, and they used that to pay for food?

      We could even have a bunch of security put around this passkey that makes it’s really easy to disable it if it gets lost or stolen.

      As for shoplifting, what if we had some kind of societal system that levied punishments against people by providing a place where the victim and accused can show evidence for and against the infraction, and an impartial pool of people decides if they need to be punished or not.

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        5 months ago

        100%

        I don’t disagree with a word you said.

        FR for a payment system is dumb.

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      5 months ago

      Another way to look at that is ~810 people having an issue with a different 810 people every single day assuming only one scan per day. That’s 891,000 people having a huge fucking problem at least once every single year.

      I have this problem with my face in the TSA pre and passport system and every time I fly it gets worse because their confidence it is correct keeps going up and their trust in my actual fucking ID keeps going down

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        5 months ago

        I have this problem with my face in the TSA pre and passport system

        Interesting. Can you elaborate on this?

        Edit: downvotes for asking an honest question. People are dumb