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.
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.
Why don’t they ban this tech entirely?
“They” want an excuse to fuck with people wherever they can for any reason they want and facial recognition give them the excuse they need. It’s not just about financial investments.
I don’t really understand what you said here. Do you believe that governments and companies do it for pretty much no reason?
Because they don’t want to face that their multi million/billion dollar investments are not going to pay off.
Oh sorry I forgot about the
intelligenceinvestmentsBecause 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.
I’ve read that masks do not actually thwart these systems.
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.
Why do you think they’d even want to?
I‘d really like to be able to sue them at the ICC for abusing the human right to not be surveiled at all times.
They couldn’t possibly do that, the EU has banned it after all.
Wait really?