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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsACLU tests Amazon face Rekognition software and finds it faulty, especially with people of color
Very disturbing given that they are selling this to law enforcement
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/26/amazon-facial-rekognition-congress-mugshots-aclu
The ACLU of Northern Californias test of Amazons controversial Rekognition software also found that people of color were disproportionately misidentified in a mugshot database, raising new concerns about racial bias and the potential for abuse by law enforcement.
The report followed revelations in May that Amazon has been marketing and selling the Rekognition technology to police agencies, leading privacy advocates to urge CEO Jeff Bezos to stop providing the product to the government.
Our test reinforces that face surveillance is not safe for government use, Jacob Snow, a technology and civil liberties attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, said in a statement. Face surveillance will be used to power discriminatory surveillance and policing that targets communities of color, immigrants, and activists. Once unleashed, that damage cant be undone.
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Of the 28 people misidentified by the ACLUs test, 11 of them were people of color, nearly 40% of those wrongly matched, despite the fact that people of color make up only 20% of those in Congress. Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus were included in the false matches, including the civil rights leader John Lewis.
The report followed revelations in May that Amazon has been marketing and selling the Rekognition technology to police agencies, leading privacy advocates to urge CEO Jeff Bezos to stop providing the product to the government.
Our test reinforces that face surveillance is not safe for government use, Jacob Snow, a technology and civil liberties attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, said in a statement. Face surveillance will be used to power discriminatory surveillance and policing that targets communities of color, immigrants, and activists. Once unleashed, that damage cant be undone.
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Of the 28 people misidentified by the ACLUs test, 11 of them were people of color, nearly 40% of those wrongly matched, despite the fact that people of color make up only 20% of those in Congress. Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus were included in the false matches, including the civil rights leader John Lewis.
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ACLU tests Amazon face Rekognition software and finds it faulty, especially with people of color (Original Post)
suffragette
Jul 2018
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Guardian article has counter from ACLU about that. Amazon's own default setting is 80% and there
suffragette
Jul 2018
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EX500rider
(10,531 posts)1. The ACLU kind of set it up not to work it seems:
"Amazon took issue with the findings, saying the system needed to be set at 95% accuracy not the 80% used by ACLU."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44965154
Of course if you set it at 80% it will be wrong a lot.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)2. Guardian article has counter from ACLU about that. Amazon's own default setting is 80% and there
is no evidence that Amazon encourages police depts to use higher setting or that police depts adjust it to the higher setting.