Comment on Monkey photo on ID activates Philippine SIM cards, exposing loophole in new law vs scammers
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 year agoMy guess is it’s not really trying to identify the person on the pic, just looking for anything looking like a human face, like any phone camera software would.
With the same pareidolia/non-human faces problems you’d get on those.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My guess is it’s the Philippines. The corporations and gov especially has absolutely no idea how to computer. They add inefficient manual processes to modern tech that is completely automated in all instances.
It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so infuriating. Filipinos deserve better, but it’s a viscous cycle of supporting the most obvious sociopath, that leads to the next sociopath; ad infinitum.
dublet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In very mild defence of their government, it’s not like many other countries do IT better at the national level.
takingbacksunday@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m from this hellhole country. This gov’t screws over the people over every chance it gets. It deserves no defending.
theterrasque@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Well, this is one place where they should have a manual process