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.

  • AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Would you kindly link some studies backing up your claims, then? Because nothing I’ve seen online has similar numbers to what you’re claiming

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        7 months ago

        It saddens me that you are being downvoted for providing a detailed factual report from an authoritative source. I apologise in the name of all Lemmy for these ignorant people

        • CeeBee@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Ya, most upvotes and downvotes are entirely emotionally driven. I knew I would get downvoted for posting all this. It happens on every forum, Reddit post, and Lemmy post. But downvotes don’t make the info I share wrong.

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            7 months ago

            Just post the sources first, arguing emotionally with ‘trust me bro’ should get the exact response it’s gotten.

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              7 months ago

              I posted my sides across many comments. But the same argument applies to everyone saying the opposite.

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          7 months ago

          Np.

          As someone else pointed out in another comment. I’ve been saying the x% accuracy number incorrectly. It’s just a colloquial way of conveying the accuracy. The truth is that no one in the industry uses “percent accuracy” and instead use FMR (false match rate) and FNMR (false non-match rate) as well as some other metrics.