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.

  • Lith@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Actually this one feels pretty similar to watch_dogs. Wasn’t this the plot to watch_dogs 2?

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Now I’m interested in the plot of watch dogs 2…

      Edit: it’s indeed the plot of watch dogs 2

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs_2

      In 2016, three years after the events of Chicago, San Francisco becomes the first city to install the next generation of ctOS – a computing network connecting every device together into a single system, developed by technology company Blume. Hacker Marcus Holloway, punished for a crime he did not commit through ctOS 2.0 …