Lawmakers Can't Ignore Facial Recognition's Bias Anymore
Lawmakers Can't Ignore Facial Recognition's Bias Anymore
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 27, 20187m 22s
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Show Notes
Amazon touts its Rekognition facial recognition system as “simple and easy to use,” encouraging customers to “detect, analyze, and compare faces for a wide variety of user verification, people counting, and public safety use cases.” And yet, in a study released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union, the technology managed to confuse photos of 28 members of Congress with publicly available mug shots.
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