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Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by IanTwenty@piefed.social to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

and its only 100$ instore credit. hope they can sue to expose them, and then you wonder where they are getting the biases from, select all non-whites as thieves.