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.
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.
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.
Congrats to the UK and its citizens!
Brexit was al about money for the NHS…
O… K? How is that relevant?
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
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Anti Commercial-AI license
Why don’t they ban this tech entirely?
Because they don’t want to face that their multi million/billion dollar investments are not going to pay off.
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.
I’ve read that masks do not actually thwart these systems.
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.
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“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.
I don’t really understand what you said here. Do you believe that governments and companies do it for pretty much no reason?
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.
Why do you think they’d even want to?
I didn’t say I thought they wanted to. I said that because I’m annoyed by all of this stuff
They couldn’t possibly do that, the EU has banned it after all.
Wait really?
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.
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.
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UK is a distopic nightmare just like its black mirror. A sample to watch and avoid
My wife recently asked me if I‘d ever move to the UK. Fuck no!
So she’s allowed in with a facemask and sunglasses?
