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.

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    Boycotts are almost impossible to pull off successfully. This kind of thing demands legal action. IANAL but the facial recognition company putting her on a list of shoplifters is a claim that she’s a criminal, which sounds like textbook defamation to me.

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      6 months ago

      For sure, I meant in addition to suing the banning retailers and the facial recognition tech company