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.
A man was sexually assaulted in jail
This kind of shit has to stop. The jailers must help held accountable. I understand this is difficult due to bad laws, but the laws need to change.
Too bad half the political spectrum wants prisons to be as terrible as possible.
Yeah, that half would be perfectly fine with throwing them in a deep pit and forgetting they exist.
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.
I don’t want to shop in stores that scan my face 🙊 time for some research.
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.
Wild that you can base a whole case on what a photo AI thinks it is seeing. These programs at the very least should work like DNA or fingerprint matching and provide a percentage of its accuracy, not just that it finds some kinda close image in its database and everyone rolls with it. And it should need some other piece of evidence as well to back it up, it should never be the “best” part of a prosecutors case.
This is why traffic cams in the US have had issues for years, and most of them are run privately, and issue “civil fines”.
Because “civil fines” (taxes, under another name, same as “civil fees”) don’t have the legal issues of receiving a ticket.
Tickets generally require interaction with an officer. Since cameras and their companies aren’t officers, they can’t generate a ticket/summons. So the gov end-runs this by using civil fees/fines, with the camera operators receiving upward of 85% of the fee.
And being a fee/fine, it’s difficult to get out of, even if you’re innocent and pursue it in court.
Of course, every jurisdiction is different, so it depends on the local legal structure.
To add onto this, here’s a story about how someone who had their car stolen (and they could prove it) lost their initial objection to the charges from a red light camera.
The charges only dissappeared once the news got involved. https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-red-light-ticket-camera-illinois-car-stolen-theft/11677595/
Huh, it’s surprising it’s a white guy this time. I figured it was another case of racist facial recognition.
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.
Are you not doing this already?/s
I do enjoy wearing a mask at points of major population centers still.
