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.

  • yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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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

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago
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          return False
          ^^^^^^
      IndentationError: expected an indented block after function definition on line 1