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.

  • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
    313·
    6 months ago

    For what? A private business can exclude anyone for any reason or no reason at all so long as the reason isn’t a protected right.

    • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      6 months ago

      I’d be surprised if being born with a specific face configuration isn’t protected in the same way that race and gender are.

      • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        6 months ago

        In the uk you can pet much guarantee that won’t happen because it would shut down their surveillance state.