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The verdict is in on facial recognition technology, and it is biased toward white men.
This tool of the trade was shown to be 99% accurate for white men and up to 35% inaccurate for Black women.
Facial recognition technology in the United States is yet another tool in the toolbox that prefers white men. This technology has been calibrated and cued to whiteness and maleness and it’s wrong.
It can do the bidding of white supremacy with a click of a button. It can misidentify Black people, it can erase us by not seeing us, and it can falsely accuse us.
It’s all very simple, if you put bias in, the bias will come out too.
And one place that bias is running and ruining is law enforcement.
