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The Justice and Home Affairs Committee has recently expressed concerns to the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, regarding the use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology by police forces in England and Wales
The Transportation Security Administration says it is in “the beginning stages” of an effort to integrate facial recognition technology into self-serve kiosks at airports across the country.
A Texas grandfather was arrested, accused of robbing a Sunglass Hut on West Gray in the River Oaks Shopping Center. The crime did happen, but the 61-year-old wasn’t in Houston, he wasn’t even in the state when it happened. He was more than 2,000 miles away in California.
Recent research conducted by Scientific American online supported fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. The research found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people. The report’s authors stated that they believe these results from factors that include the “lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets, a belief that these programs are infallible and a tendency of officers’ own biases to magnify these issues.”
Recent research conducted by Scientific American online supported fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. The research found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people. The report’s authors stated that they believe these results from factors that include the “lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets, a belief that these programs are infallible and a tendency of officers’ own biases to magnify these issues.”