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Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 4 months 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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[-] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

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?’”

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 months ago

Trying to buy his silence is insulting enough, but they offer a pitiful amount and can't even be bothered to offer actual currency?

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago

even more insulting it is only instore credit.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 13 points 4 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.

[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

Not only are they trying to buy his silence, they think they can do it so cheaply. Shows their own world view where they think people will fall over each other trying to sell their rights for a hundred.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

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