A facial-recognition system for law enforcement. By Drew Harwell Drew Harwell National technology reporter covering artificial intelligence Email Bio Follow May 22 at 1:42 PM Facial-recognition technology endured fierce resistance in Washington on Wednesday as federal lawmakers questioned whether the artificial-intelligence software posed a clear danger to American privacy and civil rights.
[Oregon became a testing ground for Amazon’s facial-recognition policing. But what if Rekognition gets it wrong?] The technology’s higher rate of inaccuracies when scanning people of color — as shown in research led by Joy Buolamwini, an artificial intelligence researcher for the M.I.T. Media Lab who testified at the hearing — also led some lawmakers to question more generally the lack of racial diversity in the American tech industry.
Daniel Castro, the vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, an industry-backed think tank, said in a statement Wednesday that calls for bans or moratoriums on how police use the technology “are misguided and will only undercut efforts to make police agencies more efficient and effective in protecting local communities.”
Amazon — which develops a facial-recognition system, Rekognition, currently used by police — also saw the technology facing questions during its annual shareholders’ meeting Wednesday, during which investors were asked to vote on two proposals that would have demanded further study of the technology’s potential human-rights risks or prevented the company from selling it to government agencies.
Let it run.....and....ignore it...until it finds .. 'FBI most wanted' .. local police most wanted ..escaped criminals ..ppl who overstayed their visa ..non-citizens ( ice/cbs will have pictures of some )
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