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·
    6 months 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·
      6 months 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·
          6 months 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.