“The New York Police Department has been loading thousands of arrest photos of children and teenagers into a facial recognition database despite evidence the technology has a higher risk of false matches in younger faces. . . . Technology that can match an image of a younger teenager to a recent arrest photo may be less effective at finding the same person even one or two years later.” Karl Ricanek Jr., a computer science professor and co-founder of the Face Aging Group at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, said, “If the facial recognition algorithm has a negative bias toward a black population, that will get magnified more toward children.” Read the complete article by clicking here.
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