Facial-recognition’s cosmetic-surgery problem
This is a serious matter. The South China Morning Post reported on a woman in eastern China who claimed that recent cosmetic surgery to her nose caused facial-recognition software to fail at identifying her. The report, which cited a local television news story, said that the woman “discovered she had been logged out of the online shopping and payment gateways she used because the secure identification process, backed by facial recognition technology, simply did not know who she was.” (Fortune)
A young woman in eastern China found her life turned upside down when plastic surgery altered her appearance so drastically she was banned from online payment gateways and unable to sign in to work.
The woman, who was identified only by the pseudonym Huan Huan, told her local television station on the weekend that her troubles had begun a month before when she had cosmetic surgery on her nose
