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"We’ve long been critics of facial recognition tech here at
Techdirt. Even
though the steady march of technology inevitably means the tech will get faster
and better, the problem is the first part: faster.
The tech has proven to be very fallible. And it has made things even worse for
the sort of people most often targeted by cops: minorities. Pretty much every
option offered by facial recognition tech purveyors performs at its worst when
dealing with anyone who isn’t white and male.
So, the people who have spent their entire history being the target of biased
policing efforts have seen nothing improve. Instead, tech advancements have,
for the most part, simply automated bigotry and provided cop shops with
plausible deniability for their own innate racism. “The machine made me do it.”
The UK — especially London and the area overseen by the Metro Police — was an
early adopter of this tech. The government had already blanketed the city with
cameras, putting it on par with China and India in terms of always-on
surveillance of its residents.
The private sector was ahead of the curve on facial recognition tech adoption.
Early concerns were raised about rights violations, but most of those issues
simply didn’t apply to business owners and their cameras. The influx of cameras
and add-on facial recognition AI has only increased the opportunity to falsely
accuse people of crimes and/or violate their rights (if the government is
involved)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
