The biggest blow to face recognition technology happened this month, when, for the first time, an independent study in the U.K. found that the system was 81 percent inaccurate.
Face recognition technology has come under intense scrutiny lately after certain studies raised questions on their efficiency. Although privacy concerns have always been part of any form of a biometric solution, things began to get controversial after a report revealed a face recognition system used by police in South Wales, the U.K., misidentified more than 2000 people as potential criminals, which made a false positive rate of 92 percent.
Much has been talked about this matter since then and other similar reports have raised even more concerns, so much so that in some places, governments have already decided to ban face recognition. In May 2019, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban the technology with o...