Forbidding discussion of something you deny you’re doing is perhaps the biggest tell of all time.
Source: This College Banned Students From Even Discussing Facial Recognition – VICE
Tag Archives: facial recognition
no oversight
The public needs to exercise oversight of law enforcement, including monitoring what technology it uses, because the potential for abuse is so high and they are, after all, our employees and not our masters.
Source: Police surveillance is more invasive and more mysterious than ever – Vox
creepy
Saying “it’s only being sold to law enforcement” DOESN’T MAKE IT BETTER.
Source: Clearview AI Facial-Recognition App Is a Nightmare For Stalking Victims | Digital Trends
too few people of color
Facial recognition is biased in large part because the material used to train it doesn’t use people of color in any meaningful numbers.
Source: Study of 189 face recognition algorithms finds racial bias
horrible ideas arriving now
Requiring people to enter a facial recognition database just to travel seems unconstitutional and immoral, to say the least.
Source: DHS plan for U.S. citizens in facial recognition databases updated – Axios
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