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.
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.
Is it even legal? What happened to consumer protection laws?
Brexit. The EU has laws forbidding stuff like this.
I don’t think this is legal in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus either.
Welcome to 2024. Where we move closer and closer to black mirror being real due to our technology improvements.
Plus our allowing sociopaths to hold so much power.
Allowing bad character to reign generally speaking. Sociopaths are like seed crystals; it’s the rest of us implanting their way of life that do most of the evil, even if they’re the ones providing the purest examples.
We need to be good people, not just nice people, in order to improve things.
I’m going to think twice before enerting any big box store because of this.
No need to avoid such stores, just wear a protection to avoid your face from being falsely flagged.
I am amazed that anyone is still using them. It is the 21st century, just shop online.
Last time I ordered big boxes online, they just shipped me empty boxes. I don’t know how they screwed that up, but then I’ve always gone to big box stores so I can actually see the big boxes I’m buying.
Fair