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The Unintended Consequences of Facial Recognition Technology on Civil Liberties

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A 2019 study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that many facial recognition algorithms were 10 to 50 times more likely to produce false positives for people of color than for white individuals, with the highest error rates for Black women.

Why this is interesting

Imagine walking into your favorite coffee shop and being scanned before you order. You might not mind, but that single scan can silently set off a chain of decisions about you that you never knew were made.