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.

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Please tell me a lawyer is taking this on pro bono and is about to sue the shit out of Facewatch.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      For what? A private business can exclude anyone for any reason or no reason at all so long as the reason isn’t a protected right.

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I’d be surprised if being born with a specific face configuration isn’t protected in the same way that race and gender are.

        • Madison420@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          In the uk you can pet much guarantee that won’t happen because it would shut down their surveillance state.