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.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 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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      10 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
        1·
        10 months ago

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

      • MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Meaning, 8’000 potential false positives per user globally. About 300 in US, 80 in Germany, 7 in Switzerland.

        Might be enough for Iceland.