New York Schools Putting Students In The Crosshairs Of Tech That Targets Minorities, Thinks Broom Handles Are Guns
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201201/10065545799/new-york-schools-putting-students-crosshairs-tech-that-targets-minorities-thinks-broom-handles-are-guns.shtml
We're turning over discipline of school kids to cops and their tech and it's just making existing problems even worse. We've seen the problems inherent in facial recognition tech. And it's not just us -- this so-called leftist rag (according to our anonymous critics). It's also the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Its study of 189 facial recognition algorithms uncovered why most legislators seem unworried about the surveillance creep:
Middle-aged white men generally benefited from the highest accuracy rates.