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Man sues Macy’s, saying false facial recognition match led to jail assault (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 9 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240124124645/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/22/facial-recognition-wrongful-identification-assault/

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 45 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Four suicides as well. They knew it was faulty as well. This has been a problem for a while.

[–] Cowlitz@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That shit was wild. It went on for so long and impacted so many people. At that point I have to think people were intentionally ignoring it. It ruined so many lives just to say "haha sorry, was a software glitch" when they could have investigated it at any point and definitely should have with the strange uptick in "embezzlement".

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

It was investigated. They opened an internal investigation and when it became obvious the investigator was going to blow it open, they cancelled the investigation 2 days before the report was going to come out.

Seriously, it's really looking like the entire board over several years should face jail time.

[–] Ringmasterincestuous@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Could be worse… could be government run, see robodebt in Australia lol