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Facial Recognition is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy

Posted on February 13, 2018 by lindaoppenheim

While some facial recognition software can identify gender, the accuracy of its results varies by skin tone and gender, accurate 99 percent of the time if the photo is of white men, but erroneous up to 35 per cent of…

Category: Article, Video Tags: Algorithmic Justice League, bias, facial recognition, gender, Joy Buolamwini, Lorna Roth, M.I.T. Media Lab, photographs, photography, skin color, software, Steve Lohr, Vox

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