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.

  • Madison420@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    For what? A private business can exclude anyone for any reason or no reason at all so long as the reason isn’t a protected right.

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      7 months ago

      I’d be surprised if being born with a specific face configuration isn’t protected in the same way that race and gender are.

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        7 months ago

        In the uk you can pet much guarantee that won’t happen because it would shut down their surveillance state.