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.

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Not the first time facial recognition tech has been misused, and certainly won’t be the last. The UK in particular has caught a lotta flak around this.

    We seem to have a hard time connecting the digital world to the physical world and realizing just how interwoven they are at this point.

    Therefore, I made an open source website called idcaboutprivacy to demonstrate the importance—and dangers—of tech like this.

    It’s a list of news articles that demonstrate real-life situations where people are impacted.

    If you wanna contribute to the project, please do. I made it simple enough to where you don’t need to know Git or anything advanced to contribute to it. (I don’t even really know Git.)