‘I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech’

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945

by SunEater888

18 comments

  2. Damn, I’m starting to understand Johnny Silverhand. Cya at the Blackrock Headquarters chooms.

  4. This is only the beginning. There will not be “The Event” that marks the start of a dystopia. Your quality of life will be gradually declining in all aspects; the changes will be almost imperceptible at first, slowly accumulating. By the time you realize what is going on, it will be too late.

    The writing is on the wall. You have received tons of warnings and you will receive many more, but you will probably ignore them all. All hail the nightmare.

  5. EU banned all face recognition tech so at least we have that.

  6. I am curious what would happen if practically all stores in the country decided to adopt this technology. Suppose someone was labelled a theif (whether correctly or falsely) by the system, and banned from buying groceries in practically the whole country. What would happen? Would they just have to starve to death?

  10. Reminded me of the short film called ‘Please Hold’.

  11. As someone who has worked with facial recognition i can tell you that this article misses the point completely. That person was not banned because some face recognition software missidentified her, she has been banned because some person in front of a computer was asked if Sarah is the person in an old picture of a thief and that person didn’t pay attention to their job. Facial recognition software does not conclude anything, it just give a person a list of probabilities that 2 faces are the same.

  12. yeah, the one exception to the rule that cannot discredit the effectiveness of the private surveillance measures along the golden streets of London.

  14. We went from “Computer says no” to “Computer says you go to jail”. Oh and also we will have plenty of “Computer says no” when AI is used to process requests for benefits etc.

  16. >*Sara – who wants to remain anonymous – was wrongly accused after being flagged by a facial-recognition system called Facewatch.*

    So you recognized me…(you think)… now tell me “my” name!

  17. I heard of a case like this in the US. Some guy had cops come to his home and arrest him for shoplifting. Turns out he’d been misID’d as a shoplifting suspect by facial recognition tech.

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