A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
The ACLU is doing a lot of great work to hold government accountable when it comes to facial recognition tech.<p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-fbi-face-recognition-secrecy" rel="nofollow">https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-fbi-face...</a><p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-dhs-face-recognition-secrecy" rel="nofollow">https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-dhs-face...</a><p>Would be great to see Amazon's support.<p>The ACLU ran an experiment with Rekognition and these are their findings:<p>"Using Rekognition, we built a face database and search tool using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos. Then we searched that database against public photos of every current member of the House and Senate. We used the default match settings that Amazon sets for Rekognition.<p>... the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.<p>... Academic research [0] has also already shown that face recognition is less accurate for darker-skinned faces and women. Our results validate this concern: Nearly 40 percent of Rekognition’s false matches in our test were of people of color, even though they make up only 20 percent of Congress."<p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28" rel="nofollow">https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te...</a><p>[0]: <a href="http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a...</a>