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Facial recognition opens a slippery slope to a world of supercharged policing that’s likely to disproportionately impact people of color through misidentification or just more surveillance of minority communities.
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Masks protect you, yet rob you of personality. We decided to give users something in return, perhaps a bit more than just safety
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A test commissioned by the ACLU of Northern California found a software called Rekognition misidentified 28 lawmakers as people arrested in a crime. That happens in part because the systems are trained on data sets that are themselves skewed.
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A test commissioned by the ACLU of Northern California found a software called Rekognition misidentified 28 lawmakers as people arrested in a crime. That happens in part because the systems are trained on data sets that are themselves skewed.
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Accuracy disparities mean already marginalized communities face the brunt of misidentifications, but the point isn’t just that facial recognition systems can misidentify faces, it’s that the technology itself can be used in biased ways.
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Accuracy disparities mean already marginalized communities face the brunt of misidentifications, but the point isn’t just that facial recognition systems can misidentify faces, it’s that the technology itself can be used in biased ways.
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There are too many ways in which it can be recklessly applied, and too few examples of the ways in which it serves a fundamental public good.
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There are too many ways in which it can be recklessly applied, and too few examples of the ways in which it serves a fundamental public good.
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There are too many ways in which it can be recklessly applied, and too few examples of the ways in which it serves a fundamental public good.
