Facial recognition tech booms despite accuracy concerns. Police arrests surge while airports and restaurants trial facial payments and passport-free travel.

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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is why some UK leaders wanted out of EU, to make their own rules with way less regard for civil rights.

    • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s the Tory way. Authoritarianism, culture wars, fucking over society’s poorest.