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Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names (www.theguardian.com)
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As facial recognition spreads across police forces and retail stores, UK biometrics commissioners are warning that national oversight is lagging far behind the technology’s rapid expansion.

Last year, the Home Office admitted facial recognition cameras were more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than their white counterparts, and women more than men, and there have been conflicting studies on their overall accuracy.

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[–] 30 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Let's not overlook yet another insidious part of it:

Home Bargains eventually issued him an apology and a £100 voucher as a “gesture of goodwill without admission”, on the condition that the details of the incident remain confidential. Clayton declined: “I just thought: ‘Really, you’re trying to buy my silence?’”

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    At least the deacon who sexually harassed me and tried to buy my silence that time wrote a three or four hundred dollar check, which I promptly cashed, and told the whole neighborhood.

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