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.
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.
I’m going to have a field day with this. I’ve got an extremely common-looking face in a major city.
Indeed, it’s likely to be a problem, if you stick with committing few or no crimes.
The good news is that, should you choose to commit an above-average number of crimes, then the system will be prone to under-report you.
So that’s nice. /sarcasm, I’m not actually advocating for more crimes. Though I am pointing out that maybe the folks installing these things aren’t incentivising the behavior they want.
I’m advocating more crimes, but unfortunately am still below average.