▲ 434 ▼ Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names (www.theguardian.com) submitted 6 months ago by Deep@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 37 comments fedilink hide all child comments People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) Fingerprints as username?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago Yes, it was intended to be used for identification and authentification in one go. For something between 500 to 700 people, and the customer wanted it to work with dirty or injured fingers, too, so the readers would have to be extraordinarily lenient. My guess is that the customer watched too many movies. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago Yes, it was intended to be used for identification and authentification in one go. For something between 500 to 700 people, and the customer wanted it to work with dirty or injured fingers, too, so the readers would have to be extraordinarily lenient. My guess is that the customer watched too many movies. permalink fedilink source parent