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Man sues Macy’s, saying false facial recognition match led to jail assault (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 10 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They did a lineup with the cashier too I believe. Just another example of eye witnesses being useless.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Not just that, according to his lawyers in the article, he was 2 thousand miles away when the robberies happened that he was "identified" as being at.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After experiencing my own false memories and how easy they came to me, I will never, ever trust an eyewitness account. Give me video proof or gtfo.

No one should trust another human's account as being 100% accurate and true. The only thing that's trustworthy are recordings from secure sources.

[–] meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Video proof can be deepfaked now. We’ll need to have recordings capture public keys of people in frame so they can be verified as real or not.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe the real criminal looked very much like this guy?