this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
248 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

60858 readers
5114 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
enu
technopagan
248
Man sues Macy’s, saying false facial recognition match led to jail assault (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 1 year ago by gAlienLifeform to c/technology
42 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] captainlezbian 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] captainlezbian 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The trick is we need styles that do it and look good enough to be worth it for people who aren’t nerds. In short now is the time for the high femme tech geeks to be bold, and experimental and make tech art that’s memetic.

[–] TexasDrunk 2 points 1 year ago

I will never be as hardcore as you, but I like your spirit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you not doing this already?/s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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