According to an article by Techdirt, the Chinese government has created "Uyghur alarms" by an explicitly biased face recognition service which they are using. China uses face recognition to identify and target Uyghur people. Under the guise of identifying the different races in China, the model used appears to specifically identify Uyghur and Tibetan face features and … [Read more...]
New Research Reveals Sexist Tendencies in Facial Recognition Tech
Recently Amazon, Microsoft, and others have taken a step back to review the use of their own face recognition software. Some users of this technology may use only face recognition to identify a person. This idea that you only need the face recognition software to identify a person doesn’t allow for errors in the programming and we all know that programs have errors. Understand … [Read more...]