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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That dude deserves a payday at the very least. Facial recognition isn’t reliable yet. And even when it is that shit should still be illegal to use as the sole justification in arrests. Do some god damn police work. Especially if the dude has an air tight alibi like BEING IN JAIL. It would take 5 minutes to confirm that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A man was sexually assaulted in jail

This kind of shit has to stop. The jailers must help held accountable. I understand this is difficult due to bad laws, but the laws need to change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Too bad half the political spectrum wants prisons to be as terrible as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that half would be perfectly fine with throwing them in a deep pit and forgetting they exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wild that you can base a whole case on what a photo AI thinks it is seeing. These programs at the very least should work like DNA or fingerprint matching and provide a percentage of its accuracy, not just that it finds some kinda close image in its database and everyone rolls with it. And it should need some other piece of evidence as well to back it up, it should never be the "best" part of a prosecutors case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

With most digital forensic tools thats exactly what they do. There's a specific threshold that gives a match probability. It's designed as a way to point someone in a direction, not to confirm identity.

I can totally see cops using this as probable cause but it would get totally laughed out of a courtroom.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are we all gonna have to start wearing disruptive clothing to avoid our lives being destroyed by an algo with immunity?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Disruptive makeup as the new fashion trend would be cyberpunk as fuck

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I seriously wish it would take off. The future should focus entirely on fucking all control structures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Are you not doing this already?/s

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I do enjoy wearing a mask at points of major population centers still.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 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".

[–] [email protected] 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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