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Re:Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software afte... by the_doctah on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @02:43PM (#38712729)
>Face matching is not a hard problem for computers. Face matching is a hard problem, period.

If that were true, then federal law enforcement agencies wouldn't use social media as a database for facially recognizing people suspected of crimes.

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Re:Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software afte... by jerf on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @03:55PM (#38713523)
As I stated in my other post, when you add more information into the scan the situation changes. Social media adds social network information which carries a lot of other info.

The task of picking a face out of hundreds, matched with the other additional cues social media can add, is radically different than the task of picking a face out of the entire human population. It is the latter that is infeasible.

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