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.

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Oh good… janky oversold systems that do a lot of automation on a very shaky basis are also having high impacts when screwing up.

    Also “Facewatch” is such an awful sounding company.