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.

  • PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Despite concerns about accuracy and potential misuse, facial recognition technology seems poised for a surge in popularity. California-based restaurant CaliExpress by Flippy now allows customers to pay for their meals with a simple scan of their face, showcasing the potential of facial payment technology.

    Oh boy, I can’t wait to be charged for someone else’s meal because they look just enough like me to trigger a payment.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I have an identical twin. This stuff is going to cause so many issues even if it worked perfectly.

      • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Ok, some context here from someone who built and worked with this kind tech for a while.

        Twins are no issue. I’m not even joking, we tried for multiple months in a live test environment to get the system to trip over itself, but it just wouldn’t. Each twin was detected perfectly every time. In fact, I myself could only tell them apart by their clothes. They had very different styles.

        The reality with this tech is that, just like everything else, it can’t be perfect (at least not yet). For all the false detections you hear about, there have been millions upon millions of correct ones.

          • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Yes, because like I said, nothing is ever perfect. There can always be a billion little things affecting each and every detection.

            A better statement would be “only one false detection out of 10 million”

            • fishpen0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Another way to look at that is ~810 people having an issue with a different 810 people every single day assuming only one scan per day. That’s 891,000 people having a huge fucking problem at least once every single year.

              I have this problem with my face in the TSA pre and passport system and every time I fly it gets worse because their confidence it is correct keeps going up and their trust in my actual fucking ID keeps going down

              • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                7 months ago

                I have this problem with my face in the TSA pre and passport system

                Interesting. Can you elaborate on this?

                Edit: downvotes for asking an honest question. People are dumb