Politicians fume after Amazon's face-recog AI fingers dozens of them as suspected crooks

Politicians fume after Amazon's face-recog AI fingers dozens of them as suspected crooks

6 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/26/amazon_face_recogition_sucks/

Amazon’s online facial recognition system incorrectly matched pictures of US Congress members to mugshots of suspected criminals in a study by the American Civil Liberties Union.

As a result, the ACLU, a nonprofit headquartered in New York, has called for Congress to ban cops and Feds from using any sort of computer-powered facial recognition technology due to the fact that, well, it sucks.