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.

  • PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Despite concerns about accuracy and potential misuse, facial recognition technology seems poised for a surge in popularity. California-based restaurant CaliExpress by Flippy now allows customers to pay for their meals with a simple scan of their face, showcasing the potential of facial payment technology.

    Oh boy, I can’t wait to be charged for someone else’s meal because they look just enough like me to trigger a payment.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I have an identical twin. This stuff is going to cause so many issues even if it worked perfectly.

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        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.eeEnglish
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          6 months ago

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

          • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

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