A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is why some UK leaders wanted out of EU, to make their own rules with way less regard for civil rights.

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      4 months ago

      It’s the Tory way. Authoritarianism, culture wars, fucking over society’s poorest.

    • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      nah i think main thing was a super fragile identity. i mean they have been shit all the time since before EU. when talks between france,germany and uk took place the insisted to take control of EU.

      if you live on an island for generations with limited new genetic input…well, thats where you end up.

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        4 months ago

        We humans have these things called “boats” that have enabled the British Isles to receive regular inputs of new genetic material. Pretty useful things, these boats, and somewhat pivotal in the history of the UK.