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.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    says more about the user then the tech.

    “You need to have a suitable face for our face recognition?” ;-)

    stores use it and it alone to ban people

    No. Read again. The stores did not use technology, they used the services of that tech company.