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.
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.
I’m not so sure the blame should solely be placed on the developers - unless you’re using that term colloquially.
Developers were probably the first people to say that it isn’t ready. Blame the sales people that will say anything for money.
It’s impossible to have a 0% false positive rate, it will never be ready and innocent people will always be affected. The only way to have a 0% false positive rate is with the following algorithm:
def is_shoplifter(face_scan):return False