Amazon's Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, A.C.L.U. Says
Source: New York Times
Representative John Lewis of Georgia and Representative Bobby L. Rush of Illinois are both Democrats, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights leaders.
But facial recognition technology made by Amazon, which is being used by some police departments and other organizations, incorrectly matched the lawmakers with people who had been arrested for a crime, the American Civil Liberties Union reported on Thursday morning.
The errors emerged as part of a larger test in which the civil liberties group used Amazon's facial software to compare the photos of all federal lawmakers against a database of 25,000 publicly available mug shots.
In the test, the Amazon technology incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with people who had been arrested, amounting to a 5 percent error rate among legislators. The test disproportionally misidentified African-American and Latino members of Congress as the people in mug shots.
"This test confirms that facial recognition is flawed, biased and dangerous," said Jacob Snow, a technology and civil liberties lawyer with the A.C.L.U. of Northern California...more..
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Proponents see it as a useful tool that can help identify criminals. It was recently used to identify the man arrested for the deadly shooting at The Capital Gazette's newsroom in Annapolis, Md. But civil liberties groups view it as a surveillance system that can inhibit people's ability to participate in political protests or go about their lives anonymously. Over the last two months, Amazon has come under increasing pressure for selling its facial technology, called Rekognition, to law enforcement agencies.
*ACLU Report, July 26, 2018, "Amazon's Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots"
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28
Our test used AmazonRekognition to compare images of members of Congress with a database of mugshots. The results included 28 incorrect matches.
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...as the people in mug shots."
What a shock. 
We really need a "rolling eyes" smiley on this board.
it is in the 4th row just past halfway across. 
there probably is a mug shot of the 26-year old Bobby Rush in 1972 when he was arrested and served time as a Panther.
along with Dick Gregory.
which is why I did the -->
Although I suppose I could have done this ---> 
