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.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    especially if you still use things like Facebook and Whatsapp.

    Yeah…speaking of my making myself a social outcast by painting my face crazy colors - I figure I am at least 20% of the way there by not using Facebook or Whatsapp.

    I’m joking…mostly. But it really can feel isolating not to have either of those apps.

    The Google Wallet feature I think has taken care of itself.

    My experience matches. I did miss Google Pay for a few months after switching to GrapheneOs, until tap-to-pay reached all my favorite stores. Now I’m just mildly annoyed to carry a card to do something my phone ought to do.

    So that just leaves the Google Camera. How’s the quality with Graphene?

    I was very annoyed with how slow the Google camera app loaded, on my previous phone.

    My Pixel with GraoheneOS is the best camera I have had in about a decade, because the stock camera app opens almost instantly. I had a big problem with the camera taking a couple seconds to open, on my previous two or three Android phones. Somehow it got worse with each generation of phone, while I paid more for stronger CPU and worse battery life.

    I am vaguely aware that I maybe gave up some clever camera features that some of my phone vendors added, but I don’t miss them since I wasn’t using them. One had a 3d photo picture that I used exactly once, if I recall.

    But compared to stock (Pixel) Android, it’s literally apparently the same camera app, except I swear it loads much faster. (I’m wrong, it’s not the same app.) The privacy implications of the load time difference I perceived freak me out a little, honestly. I hope I’m just wrong about that bit. (Thankfully, yes. I’m wrong.)

    I also missed Google Photos for backup, until I bought a Synology Network Attached storage device.