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Old Oct 2, 2018 | 6:35 am
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Originally Posted by petaluma1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/t...-congress.html



I'd wager that Amazon's isn't the only FRT that does this.
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 charged with a crime, the American Civil Liberties Union reported on Thursday morning.
Rush is 71 and Lewis is 78. I suspect, among other things, that this FRT cannot distinguish between two similar faces of drastically different ages. I'd be willing to bet that the criminals who matched with Lewis and Rush weren't even close to their ages being near 70.
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