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.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    No you misunderstood. That is a reduction in commonality by a literal factor of one million. Any secondary verification point is sufficient to reduce the false positive rate to effectively zero.

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      7 months ago

      secondary verification point

      Like, running a card sized piece of plastic across a reader?

      It’d be nice if they were implementing this to combat credit card fraud or something similar, but that’s not how this is being deployed.

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      7 months ago

      Which means the face recognition was never necessary. It’s a way for companies to build a database that will eventually get exploited. 100% guarantee.