trust the science, trust the technology






https://threatpost.com/aws-facial-re...minals/156984/


Facial recognition technology continues to present privacy and security issues as it misidentifies people at an alarming rate. The technology is used by law enforcement agencies to make arrests, despite these identification errors. Consumer privacy expert Paul Bischoff found that Amazon’s face recognition platform mistook more than 100 photos of US and UK lawmakers, labeling them as wanted criminals.

The technology produced by Amazon, Rekognition, is a could-based facial recognition platform launched in 2016 and is used by several different US agencies, including ICE in Orlando and the Florida Police. Bischoff also found that the platform was racially biased, and misidentified non-white people at a higher rate than white people. Bischoff found that Rekognition misidentified four more individuals during his experiment than one conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union two years ago.



These findings have disturbing real-life implications. Last week, the ACLU shed light on Detroit citizen Robert Julian-Borchak Williams, who was arrested after a facial recognition system falsely matched his photo with security footage of a shoplifter.

The incident sparked lawmakers last week to propose legislation that would indefinitely ban the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement nationwide. Though Amazon previously had sold its technology to police departments, the tech giant recently placed a law enforcement moratorium on facial recognition (Microsoft and *** did the same). But Bischoff says society still has a ways to go in figuring out how to correctly utilize facial recognition in a way that complies with privacy, consent and data security.

They’re probably right. Especially when they identify Joe and Hunter Biden

I was gonna say... sounds like it is working just fine

"Misidentified"

Even AI can tell politicians are criminals.