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UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by Hachiefy@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If it works anything like Apple’s Face ID twins don’t actually map all that similar. In the general population the probability of matching mapping of the underlying facial structure is approximately 1:1,000,000. It is slightly higher for identical twins and then higher again for prepubescent identical twins.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And yet this woman was mistaken for a 19-year-old 🤔

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Shitty implementation doesn’t mean shitty concept, you’d think a site full of tech nerds would understand such a basic concept.