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UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech

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.

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[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

After looking at the photo with the article, I have to say that I'm glad I live in a society where machines have taken over the burden of drawing dicks onto peoples faces.

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