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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because they don't want to face that their multi million/billion dollar investments are not going to pay off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Oh sorry I forgot about the ~~intelligence~~ investments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because they don't want to lose a method of tracking us wherever we show our faces. I think masks will be a fashion in the future, and they are just so comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've read that masks do not actually thwart these systems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Depends on what you mean by "thwart". Facewatch is clearly calling all false positives a success, so if someone shows up in a facemask and the system says I am shoplifting, thats a successful prevention. Companies that do "prevention" of something like this can just call a success whatever they want.