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.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    211·
    4 months ago

    I’m not so sure the blame should solely be placed on the developers - unless you’re using that term colloquially.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      201·
      4 months ago

      Developers were probably the first people to say that it isn’t ready. Blame the sales people that will say anything for money.

      • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        It’s impossible to have a 0% false positive rate, it will never be ready and innocent people will always be affected. The only way to have a 0% false positive rate is with the following algorithm:

        def is_shoplifter(face_scan):
        return False

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago
          line 2
    return False
    ^^^^^^
IndentationError: expected an indented block after function definition on line 1
          • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Weird, for me the indentation renders correctly. Maybe because I used Jerboa and single ticks instead of triple ticks?

            • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
              2·
              4 months ago

              Interesting. This is certainly not the first time there have been markdown parsing inconsistencies between clients on Lemmy, the most obvious example being subscript and superscript, especially when ~multiple words~ ^get used^ or you use ^reddit ^style ^(superscript text).

              But yeah, checking just now on Jerboa you’re right, it does display correctly the way you did it. I first saw it on the web in lemmy-ui, which doesn’t display it properly, unless you use the triple backticks.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        4 months ago

        They worked on it, they knew what could happen. I could face criminal charges if I do certain things at work that harm the public.

        • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
          72·
          4 months ago

          I have no idea where Facewatch got their software from. The developers of this software could’ve been told their software will be used to find missing kids. Not really fair to blame developers. Blame the people on top.