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

    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.