7/26 PM The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally
7/26 PM The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 26, 201912m 45s
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Show Notes
French company Idemia’s algorithms scan faces by the million. The company’s facial recognition software serves police in the US, Australia, and France. Idemia software checks the faces of some cruise ship passengers landing in the US against Customs and Border Protection records. In 2017, a top FBI official told Congress that a facial recognition system that scours 30 million mugshots using Idemia technology helps “safeguard the American people.
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