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.
People mocked China, but here we are. Surveillance capitalism looked at that country and said “we can do better”.
But people are fine with it because “I have nothing to hide” makes sense to them or they simply don’t care - until something happens to them.
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The UK has been right up there on the highest number of cameras per person in the world, this isn’t surprising. They’ve been at the forefront of this before China took the records.
Congrats to the UK and its citizens!
Brexit was al about money for the NHS…
O… K? How is that relevant?
UK is a distopic nightmare just like its black mirror. A sample to watch and avoid
My wife recently asked me if I‘d ever move to the UK. Fuck no!
So she’s allowed in with a facemask and sunglasses?
Why don’t they ban this tech entirely?
They couldn’t possibly do that, the EU has banned it after all.
Wait really?
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.
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.
Why do you think they’d even want to?
“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?
