UN decries police use of racial profiling derived from Big Data

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Police and border guards must combat racial profiling and ensure that their use of 'big data' collected via artificial intelligence does not ...

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GENEVA: Police and border guards must combat racial profiling and ensure that their use of"big data" collected via artificial intelligence does not reinforce biases against minorities, United Nations experts said on Thursday .

"We've heard about companies using these algorithmic methods to discriminate on the basis of skin colour," she added, speaking from Jamaica. Minorities and activists have complained about the growing use of artificial intelligence, facial recognition and other new technologies, she said."It's widely used in the United States of America, and we've had complaints from black communities in the European Union as well. And Latin America where people of African descent and indigenous people complain about profiling," Shepherd said, citing Brazil and Colombia.

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