Banks across America test facial recognition cameras 'to spy on staff, customers' Banks in America are reportedly rolling out cameras with machine-learning software to surveil people, claiming it’ll help reduce fraud, provide a better service to reduce wait times, and monitor homeless people sleeping near ATMs. Top names like JP Morgan to Wells Fargo are deploying facial-recognition technology to observe …
Last time I went to a bank? To deposit a cheque (or rather “check”) from a US customer. Why you people insist on posting bits of paper around the world is beyond me. If it’s not cheques it’s 1042-S forms, which are just coming into season again - my shredder will be busy for the next month or so.
Americans! Do your overseas suppliers a favour: Send a wire. Not ACH, an actual wire that can cross borders. Come, join us in the 21st century.
I suppose it could be considered the first few steps for a robot butler but quite some way to go before it can compete with a Jeeves.
I would settle for one that can uncork a bottle and pour a glass of wine at the right temperature as well as iron a shirt and press trousers, I certainly don't want anything that will try to talk to me or be 'connected'.
supermarkets in America...casinos in America... airports in America (no, seriously!), churches in America... tell me, which money-grabbing institution in America is NOT installing them? Did I mention hotels, motels and camp-sites? Cities? Highways? MacDonalds, etc?
Just write "A DOG" on a post-it note and slap it on your forehead to fool the system
WARNING - PENDANT* ALERT
@ Yet Another Anonymous Coward and ecofeco
I refer the learned gentlefolk to Ms Leona Helmsley:
"Only the little people pay taxes."
The meaning of "people" in her statement clearly includes those paid less than US$50,000 a year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Helmsley
*I am reliably informed by a member of the Register's commentardship on another thread that I am pendant for trying to correct things people post.
Are organisations legally permitted to monitor people in a public place in the USA?
In the US, there's a greatly reduced expectation of privacy in public spaces. So, generally, yes.
As the article mentioned, some local jurisdictions are constraining the use of some privacy-invading technologies. I'd be interested to see someone sue over this sort of thing in Illinois under their biometrics law, too, since facial recognition could certainly be construed as collecting biometric data.
Frankly, though, I don't know why most people would do retail banking with a large US bank. Most of the population has access to a decent Federal credit union (essentially a mutual bank) and/or a local bank. In Michigan we bank with an FCU that offers the same services, better terms, and much better service than any national bank I've ever dealt with, and in New Mexico with a local bank that has deep community roots and therefore a reputation to protect.
It would make a square 215mm across, so it would fit at one to the 12" wafer.
But the failure rate must be horrendous; I hope they've introduced some spare blocks in the thing so they can cope with huge chunks of it not working.
(I'm guessing here; I've never built a wafer in my life).
"Banks in America are reportedly rolling out cameras with machine-learning software to surveil people, claiming it’ll help reduce fraud"
These cameras need to pointed in the opposite direction.
I had a Wells Fargo account long ago for a few short years and I have been notified of no less than 3 different class action lawsuits against them.
#The bank had used my identity to open up "products and services" without my knowledge
#The bank had adjusted the order of transactions to maximize fees
#And this month I received a check from another class action against Wells where they had charged me fees before I had even started to use the account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo
By the time this software arrives in the UK, the last bank branch will have been closed.
My local branch closed recently. And for all of you that think you don't need a branch, wait until you have to do something complicated, such as deal with the estate of a deceased relative, using a tenth rate phone banking menu with a 40 minute 'queue'.
Agreed. There are certainly some banking jobs that are more quickly, easily, and pleasantly accomplished by a visit to a branch and quick conversation with an officer. Particularly if, say, they involve getting some questions answered, or having some documents notarized, or proving identity.
And I wouldn't trust a banking phone app as far as I could throw it. There's a long, tiresome list of vulnerabilities in those things. They are not, in general, developed by teams who know what they're doing or care about secure development practices.
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