After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives

https://lemmy.world/post/2320017

After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives - Lemmy.world

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

Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology …harvard.edu/…/racial-discrimination-in-face-reco…

Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology - Science in the News

The application of face recognition technology in the criminal justice system threatens to perpetuate racial inequality.

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Yeah. Basic anything with a lower contrast, with shadows and backgrounds. And because shadows are dark, they have a lower contrast with other dark things.