UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
from rosschie@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 08:32
https://lemmy.ml/post/16170563

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.

#technology

threaded - newest

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 09:12 next collapse

Why don’t they ban this tech entirely?

golden_zealot@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 09:21 next collapse

Because they don’t want to face that their multi million/billion dollar investments are not going to pay off.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 10:48 next collapse

Oh sorry I forgot about the intelligence investments

waspentalive@lemmy.one on 28 May 2024 12:52 collapse

Because they don’t want to lose a method of tracking us wherever we show our faces. I think masks will be a fashion in the future, and they are just so comfortable.

Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 13:40 collapse

I’ve read that masks do not actually thwart these systems.

BakerBagel@midwest.social on 28 May 2024 13:54 collapse

Depends on what you mean by “thwart”. Facewatch is clearly calling all false positives a success, so if someone shows up in a facemask and the system says I am shoplifting, thats a successful prevention. Companies that do “prevention” of something like this can just call a success whatever they want.

ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world on 28 May 2024 12:52 next collapse

“They” want an excuse to fuck with people wherever they can for any reason they want and facial recognition give them the excuse they need. It’s not just about financial investments.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 17:22 collapse

I don’t really understand what you said here. Do you believe that governments and companies do it for pretty much no reason?

Ptsf@lemmy.world on 28 May 21:45 collapse

It’s the same reason many unenforced laws exist. It’s an entrance point. As the saying goes, they didn’t get capone on his gang activity.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 18:08 next collapse

Why do you think they’d even want to?

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 19:02 collapse

I didn’t say I thought they wanted to. I said that because I’m annoyed by all of this stuff

Thcdenton@lemmy.world on 29 May 04:28 next collapse

🇬🇧

haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com on 29 May 05:04 next collapse

I‘d really like to be able to sue them at the ICC for abusing the human right to not be surveiled at all times.

ace@lemmy.ananace.dev on 29 May 10:18 collapse

They couldn’t possibly do that, the EU has banned it after all.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 29 May 10:22 collapse

Wait really?

ace@lemmy.ananace.dev on 29 May 15:12 collapse

The EU AI act classifies AI based on risk (in case of mistakes etc), and things like criminality assessment is classed as an unacceptable risk, and is therefore prohibited without exception.

There’s a great high level summary available for the act, if you don’t want to read the hundreds of pages of text.

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 28 May 2024 11:06 next collapse

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.

Anti Commercial-AI license

dimeslime@lemmy.ca on 28 May 2024 13:24 next collapse

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.

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 29 May 10:17 collapse

Congrats to the UK and its citizens!

Anti Commercial-AI license

p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 May 04:17 next collapse

Anti Commercial-AI license

Anti Commercial-AI license

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 29 May 08:25 collapse

Brexit was al about money for the NHS…

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 29 May 10:16 collapse

O… K? How is that relevant?

Anti Commercial-AI license

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 29 May 10:19 collapse

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

Suoko@feddit.it on 28 May 2024 18:26 next collapse

UK is a distopic nightmare just like its black mirror. A sample to watch and avoid

haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com on 29 May 05:02 collapse

My wife recently asked me if I‘d ever move to the UK. Fuck no!

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 29 May 00:10 collapse

So she’s allowed in with a facemask and sunglasses?