After federal study finds racial bias in facial recognition tech, advocates renew calls for ban

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Advocacy groups and lawmakers renew calls for ban on government use of facial recognition technology in wake of sweeping new study that found a majority of the software exhibits a racial bias.

"This study makes it clear: the government needs to stop using facial recognition surveillance right now," Evan Greer, the deputy director of Fight for the Future, a nonprofit digital rights advocacy group, told ABC News in a statement.

"Even if the algorithms improve in the future, biometric surveillance like face recognition is dangerous and invasive," Greer said."Lawmakers everywhere should take action to ban the use of this nuclear-grade surveillance tech."In this Dec. 4, 2019 file photo commuters pass through the World Trade Center in New York.

For"one-to-many" matches, which determine whether a photo of a person has any match in a database -- and is often what is used for identifying persons of interest -- the researchers found higher rates of false positives for African American women. The team emphasized that different algorithms had very different results when it came to the prevalence of false-negatives.

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It should B Biased-Look at who is Committing all the Crimes

no one listens to advocacy or lawmakers, The software does not exhibit racial bias

And guess who invested in this Chinese technology: Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son. Name of his investment company is Bohai Harvest RST. Here’s the Biden corruption in all its glory.

Are you going to mention this story or do we have to do it for you ?

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