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After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
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[-] OrganicLife@reddthat.com 160 points 11 months ago

14 out of 15 requests were of black people. Facial recognition is notoriously bad with darker skin tones.

Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discrimination-in-face-recognition-technology/

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 50 points 11 months ago

Actually, all 15 were of black people. 14 were of black men, one was a black woman.

[-] OrganicLife@reddthat.com 17 points 11 months ago

Zero arrests as well.

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