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.

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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”

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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

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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