https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jwx7/even-the-government-admits-facial-recognition-is-racially-biased

A new federal study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) confirms, again, that facial recognition technology is riddled with a fundamental racial bias.

Using nearly 200 facial recognition algorithms developed by 99 corporations on 18 million images from federal databases, the algorithms’ accuracy was found to vary wildly among different racial, ethnic, gender, and age groups. Native Americans, Blacks, and Asians had some of the highest false match rates; for mugshots, Blacks and Asians were misidentified at rates ranging from ten to 100 times more than Caucasians. Women, in general, had higher false match rates than men, with Native American women misidentified as high as 68 times more than white men.