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In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)
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In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black::Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not expose pictures longer to get better features of darker skinned people and less accurate of lighter skinned people, leading to more false arrests of lighter skinned people?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And remove the convenient excuse to harass black people? These are cops we're talking about.