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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] 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

People mocked China, but here we are. Surveillance capitalism looked at that country and said "we can do better".

But people are fine with it because "I have nothing to hide" makes sense to them or they simply don't care - until something happens to them.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The UK has been right up there on the highest number of cameras per person in the world, this isn't surprising. They've been at the forefront of this before China took the records.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Congrats to the UK and its citizens!

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

Brexit was al about money for the NHS...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well I'm not saying that the one privacy protections of the EU were the main reason for Brexit, but I'm sure that the Tories didn't mind not longer having to abide by them

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

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