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.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This makes me think of people who have trouble in airports because their name is similar to someone else’s.

    Only this is going to be much harder to deal with