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.

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
    121·
    3 months ago

    it can’t be perfect (at least not yet).

    Or ever, because it locks you out after a drunken night otherwise.

    • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      Or ever because there is no such thing as 100% in reality. You can only add more digits at the end of your accuracy, but it will never reach 100.