Facial recognition has been widely used by authorities to identify alleged 'criminals' in a specific court case. It has been the basis of most arrests in the United States. Now, the technology is being scrutinized for its failed system towards correctly identifying who's the suspect and who's not. And that issue also applies, even to our politicians.
How bad is facial recognition?
Aside from proving how inaccurate facial recognition was, another theory that they prove is how racial bias is these types of technology.
Data shows that out of the 12 politicians who were misidentified at a confidence threshold of 90% or higher, six were politicians in 'color.' This shows that facial recognition has misidentified more non-white people compared to white people.
"Putting too much faith in face recognition can lead to false arrests," said him. "But whether you agree with police use of face recognition or not, one thing is certain: it isn't ready to be used for identification without human oversight."
Amazon, Microsoft, Google refuse to sell facial recognition to police
Recently, leading tech companies Amazon, Microsoft, and Google decided to refuse to sell facial recognition to police departments after cases of misidentified criminals in their database.
Amazon specifically announced a one-year moratorium from using the technology since the racial arrests were held with the usage of their technology.
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