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.

  • firadin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t the fact that a technology is fundamentally discriminatory mean we should question the use of that technology? Not just shrug our shoulders and say too bad?

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      1 year ago

      Shouldn’t use it at all, but the tech isn’t intentionally malicious, just a fact of the tech.