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.

  • boatswain@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    Two of the employees were twins. It wasn’t planned, but it did give us a chance to see if twins were a weak point.

    No, it gave you a chance to see if that particular set of twins was a weak point.

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      With that logic we would need to test the system on every living person to see where it fails.

      The system had been tested ad nauseum in a variety of scenarios (including with twins and every other combination you can think of, and many you can’t). In this particular situation, a real-world test in a large facility with many hundreds of cameras everywhere, there happened to be twins.

      It’s a strong data point regardless of your opinion. If it was the only one then you’d have a point. But like I said, it was an anecdotal example.