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Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system

kayfox — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:08:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognition-struggle-to-clear-their-name

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003447

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New comment by kayfox in "Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant"

kayfox — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:44:22 +0000

Flock can also fix this by validating the description of the target vehicle against the detected vehicle.

The dispatch backend can fix this by annotating this warrant with a warning that its not this particular vehicle.

Police themselves can fix this by being a human check on dumb entries in computer systems.

New comment by kayfox in "Brands got worse on purpose"

kayfox — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:26:08 +0000

Costco has the same sourcing issues a lot of other companies have, they do spend a lot of effort on due diligence when sourcing Kirkland Signature brand products, but sometimes what they get in a production run ends up being something else, or there's unexpected issues with the products once the public gets them.

New comment by kayfox in "Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol"

kayfox — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:38:14 +0000

UBNT stands for UBiquiti NeTworks.

New comment by kayfox in "ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face"

kayfox — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:28:20 +0000

In the case of Global Entry you can enter your license plate into your profile to allow using it in the NEXUS lanes heading into the US.

New comment by kayfox in "Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings"

kayfox — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:18:04 +0000

From my experiences, it does have a higher chance of better outcome, as homeless youth are usually homeless because of some family issue and not because they are unable to hold down a job as a result of drug abuse or being homeless.

New comment by kayfox in "Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings"

kayfox — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:14:36 +0000

Your comparing statistics for homeless adults to homeless youth.

From my experience being a homeless youth 20 years ago, LGBTQ individuals make up a large share of homeless youth, I would guess more than 50% at the time.

There may be less gay or lesbian homeless youth these days, but transgender youth may have grown.

New comment by kayfox in "Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game"

kayfox — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:59:35 +0000

> There can be two Skycams in major playoff games or the Super Bowl (high and low).

There can be more depending on how you block out the cables, I have seen 5. The two Skycam limit is based on two independent systems that do not do cable avoidance in software, you just block out the allowed altitudes on each system.

There also other cable suspended systems in use to move on a line strung between two points and sometimes a track suspended under the stadium roof.

Fun fact: The Skycam was invented by Steadicam inventor Garret Brown and uses some of the same principals for stabilization.

New comment by kayfox in "Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)"

kayfox — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:35:54 +0000

The page on Wikipedia for fsn was deleted because fsn is "not notable."

New comment by kayfox in "Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says"

kayfox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:36:31 +0000

Airlines don't negotiate prices based on the exact options selected, they select a list of options and then negotiate on price from there. This particular option does not appear to have a price associated with it, it just increases the cost of training and documentation for pilots and some airlines would opt out of using it.

People talking about MCAS seem to simultaneously pound the line that everything on the aircraft the pilots encounter should be trained for and forget that adding new stuff to the flight displays will incur additional training that an airline may not want to deal with.

New comment by kayfox in "Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says"

kayfox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:31:10 +0000

Did UPS Airlines ever fly the DC-10/MD10?

FedEx did and they retired them in the last 5 years because they had reached the end of their economical service lifetime and not because of any major flaw.

New comment by kayfox in "It's Always TCP_NODELAY"

kayfox — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:58:20 +0000

Things I have found that only do 10mbit:

Old CNC equipment.

Older Zebra label printers.

Some older Motorola radio stuff.

That SGI Indy we keep around for Jurassic Park jokes.

The LaserJet 5 thats still going after 30 years or something.

Some modern embedded stuff that does not have enough chooch to deal with 100mbit.

New comment by kayfox in "After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses"

kayfox — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:39:39 +0000

These stations and networks still have about 80% of their previous funding, so nothing is really going to get shut down right away.

Also, in many cases the TV and radio spectrums in markets these stations are in are not saturated to the point where new licensees are prevented from operating just because of saturation.

So this is really just some group asking for public broadcasting to be punished even more.

New comment by kayfox in "TSA to charge $18 fee for travelers without Real ID or passport"

kayfox — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:59:40 +0000

> or if you're rural, five minutes in and out.

After driving for an hour or two.

New comment by kayfox in "Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (2024)"

kayfox — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:41:18 +0000

COs are already being used for edge datacenters, its just not been talked about much outside the industry.

New comment by kayfox in "GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking"

kayfox — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:39:08 +0000

But you do need a GDPR specialized attorney to review all of what your doing even if you don't use any cookies.

Why? Even logging an IP address in a request log is creating records controlled by GDPR.

When TV news in the US is broke and only gets along because large companies buy up stations to control the news, its hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on complying with laws from another continent.

New comment by kayfox in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

kayfox — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:26:40 +0000

For fridges? True Manufacturing.

New comment by kayfox in "Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test"

kayfox — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:05:32 +0000

They were also involved in the Boeing MCAS thing as the company responsible for the computers and who presumably wrote the code.

New comment by kayfox in "FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness"

kayfox — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:32:55 +0000

You seem to want a system where the regulators, while embedded at Boeing, are just wandering around and looking at things. What we have in aviation is a system where engineers, the people wearing the rings, with an ethical and moral obligation to prevent harm to other people, are charged with identifying issues and escalating them as far as the FAA if needed as they work on their day-to-day tasks.

The latter is a much better system to find issues than the former, you get a chance to see a lot more issues when your actively working on the systems where the issues would be than if your walking around and looking at paperwork.

New comment by kayfox in "ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way"

kayfox — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:22:06 +0000

> While I think an update to the Apache version is a good idea, this is a very low quality report.

It's still a report, which should be handled with seriousness and professionalism. What that app developer did was neither.