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.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m not so sure the blame should solely be placed on the developers - unless you’re using that term colloquially.

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      1 year ago

      Developers were probably the first people to say that it isn’t ready. Blame the sales people that will say anything for money.

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        1 year ago

        It’s impossible to have a 0% false positive rate, it will never be ready and innocent people will always be affected. The only way to have a 0% false positive rate is with the following algorithm:

        def is_shoplifter(face_scan):
        return False

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          1 year ago
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