The Hidden Costs of Facial Recognition
Facial recognition has led to at least fifteen known wrongful arrests in the US, with nearly all victims Black, including Robert Williams (arrested in 2020 after an algorithm matched grainy footage to his driver’s licence), Porcha Woodruff…
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