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Racial ["]bias["] in facial recognition software: What travelers should know as TSA, CBP expand programs
Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union used software developed by Amazon to match photos of all 535 members of Congress against a database of 25,000 publicly available arrest photos.

The software incorrectly matched 28 lawmakers with photos of people who'd been arrested. Nearly 40% of those false matches were nonwhite lawmakers, though minorities make up only 20% of Congress.

CHINA! RUSSIA! < wipes tears >
by Cat on Mon Dec 30th, 2019 at 06:43:32 PM EST
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The industry knows facial recognition software is biased.  Even the federal government knows the software is biased.  That hasn't stopped the first from selling the systems and various government and police agencies from purchasing the systems.

There are people working to fix the systems.  I doubt they can due to fundamental problems with the technology, e.g., Catastrophic Forgetting


She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Mon Dec 30th, 2019 at 09:12:20 PM EST
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