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After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 year ago (25 children)

14 out of 15 requests were of black people. Facial recognition is notoriously bad with darker skin tones.

Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discrimination-in-face-recognition-technology/

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, all 15 were of black people. 14 were of black men, one was a black woman.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Zero arrests as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

New Orleans is pretty black, but thats just impressive.

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