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.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Yup, it turns out if you have millions of pixels to work with, you have a better shot at correctly identifying someone than if you have dozens.