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.

  • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Because the algorithm trying to identify shoplifters is probably trained on biased dataset

    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      That’s not how it works! It has mistakenly identified her as a specific individual who was already convicted of theft.