A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
AWS is running a nice screen here. I recall reading about Rekognition being documented as having accuracy problems when individuals in question had darker skin [2,3].<p>&gt;&gt; <i>&quot;The latest cause for concern is a study published this week by the MIT Media Lab, which found that Rekognition performed worse when identifying an individual’s gender if they were female or darker-skinned.&quot;</i> [1]<p>I can&#x27;t really comment. Just recalled this in the memory banks and thought they might address this directly [they may have].<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;1&#x2F;25&#x2F;18197137&#x2F;amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-bias-race-gender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;1&#x2F;25&#x2F;18197137&#x2F;amazon-rekogniti...</a><p>2- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.media.mit.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;amazon-is-pushing-facial-technology-that-a-study-says-could-be-biased&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.media.mit.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;amazon-is-pushing-facial-...</a><p>3- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;ai-experts-take-on-amazon-after-researchers-findings-of-racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-2019-04-03" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;ai-experts-take-on-amazon-...</a>