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.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

      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.