Retailers increasingly are using facial recognition software to patrol their stores for shoplifters and other unwanted customers. But the technology’s accuracy is highly dependent on technical factors — the cameras’ video quality, a store’s lighting, the size of its face database — and a mismatch can lead to dangerous results.
Faulty software and people who don’t operate it properly, this is going to cause a lot of problems in the coming years. I read another article about faulty Fujitsu auditing software in the UK that led to 400 postmasters being falsely accused of theft.
Four suicides as well. They knew it was faulty as well. This has been a problem for a while.
That shit was wild. It went on for so long and impacted so many people. At that point I have to think people were intentionally ignoring it. It ruined so many lives just to say “haha sorry, was a software glitch” when they could have investigated it at any point and definitely should have with the strange uptick in “embezzlement”.
It was investigated. They opened an internal investigation and when it became obvious the investigator was going to blow it open, they cancelled the investigation 2 days before the report was going to come out.
Seriously, it’s really looking like the entire board over several years should face jail time.
Is this not a case of an unavailable accusers? In other words, Traffic Cams have time and again been overturned as unconstitutional because you have the right to face your accusers?
Pretty sure Tom from IT can rustle up a laptop to take to court but…Facial Recog. is some bullshit 1984 bullshit.
They did a lineup with the cashier too I believe. Just another example of eye witnesses being useless.
Not just that, according to his lawyers in the article, he was 2 thousand miles away when the robberies happened that he was “identified” as being at.
Maybe the real criminal looked very much like this guy?
Macy’s, Sunglass Hut, Rite-Aid… We need a website with a list of the companies that falsely accuse their visitors of crimes. The public needs to know the dangers of shopping at these places.
Also, AI should be excluded as evidence of a crime. The results of any form of AI analysis should be forbidden in probable cause statements.
Fuck that, i want a list of all stores deploying facial recognition. I’ll take my money elsewhere, fuck you very much.
Agreed. If a store uses facial recognition, it can only be to falsely accuse their visitors of crimes. The only possible outcomes of facial recognition are unreliable results and false accusations.
I don’t want to shop in stores that scan my face 🙊 time for some research.
Mask up
My favorite thing about the pandemic: anonymous in public anytime I want.
I think I just order anonymously to random PO box via dark net from now on 🤣
Don’t shop in physical stores anymore?
Valid solution! (With the right internet privacy setup, of course)
Are we all gonna have to start wearing disruptive clothing to avoid our lives being destroyed by an algo with immunity?
Disruptive makeup as the new fashion trend would be cyberpunk as fuck
I seriously wish it would take off. The future should focus entirely on fucking all control structures.
The trick is we need styles that do it and look good enough to be worth it for people who aren’t nerds. In short now is the time for the high femme tech geeks to be bold, and experimental and make tech art that’s memetic.
I will never be as hardcore as you, but I like your spirit.
Are you not doing this already?/s
I do enjoy wearing a mask at points of major population centers still.
How about makeup?
That dude deserves a payday at the very least. Facial recognition isn’t reliable yet. And even when it is that shit should still be illegal to use as the sole justification in arrests. Do some god damn police work. Especially if the dude has an air tight alibi like BEING IN JAIL. It would take 5 minutes to confirm that.
