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.

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      36·
      1 month ago

      Because they don’t want to face that their multi million/billion dollar investments are not going to pay off.

      • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneEnglish
        8·
        1 month ago

        Because they don’t want to lose a method of tracking us wherever we show our faces. I think masks will be a fashion in the future, and they are just so comfortable.

          • BakerBagel@midwest.social
            2·
            1 month ago

            Depends on what you mean by “thwart”. Facewatch is clearly calling all false positives a success, so if someone shows up in a facemask and the system says I am shoplifting, thats a successful prevention. Companies that do “prevention” of something like this can just call a success whatever they want.

    • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 month ago

      “They” want an excuse to fuck with people wherever they can for any reason they want and facial recognition give them the excuse they need. It’s not just about financial investments.

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
        21·
        1 month ago

        I don’t really understand what you said here. Do you believe that governments and companies do it for pretty much no reason?

        • Ptsf@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          It’s the same reason many unenforced laws exist. It’s an entrance point. As the saying goes, they didn’t get capone on his gang activity.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
      2·
      1 month ago

      I‘d really like to be able to sue them at the ICC for abusing the human right to not be surveiled at all times.