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.

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Well, this blows the “if you’ve not done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about” argument out of the water.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      That argument was only ever made by dumb fucks or evil fucks. The article reports about an actual occurrence of one of the problems of such technology that we (people who care about privacy) have warned about from the beginning.

    • refalo@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      the way I like to respond to that:

      “ok, pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone”