Amazon face recognition falsely matches 28 lawmakers with mugshots, ACLU says
by Sam Levin in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#3VN0M)
Test of Rekognition software links members of Congress to arrest photos and finds people of color misidentified disproportionately
Amazon's facial recognition technology falsely identified 28 members of Congress as people who have been arrested for crimes, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The ACLU of Northern California's test of Amazon's controversial Rekognition software also found that people of color were disproportionately misidentified in a mugshot database, raising new concerns about racial bias and the potential for abuse by law enforcement.
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