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Facial recognition error sees woman accused of theft

by pseudolus on 6/16/25, 1:19 AM with 2 comments

• by gus_massa on 6/17/25, 1:57 AM

  > "Historically in Britain, we have a history that you are innocent until proven guilty but when an algorithm, a camera and a facial recognition system gets involved, you are guilty."

  I don't understand where is the algorithm. I guess one of the employees pressed the wrong button and added her to the ban list.

• by phillipseamore on 6/16/25, 1:54 AM

  Toilet paper: £10

  Bad publicity from a customer exposing your spending on faulty facial recognition to be a disaster: Priceless