Post #1929850
2026-05-03 22:13 UTC
Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognition-struggle-to-clear-their-name
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@Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk 2026-05-03 22:40
@Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social 99.98% accuracy sounds great to the man on the Clapham omnibus until they realise that the very best case scenario for this secretive, opaquely supervised and lamentably badly regulated technology is a guaranteed thirteen and a half thousand falsely accused people, any of which could be them.