Results: Facial Recognition Being Used By Police Forces!
Published on 12/23/2019
A US government study suggests facial recognition algorithms are far less accurate at identifying African-American and Asian faces compared to Caucasian faces.
African-American females were even more likely to be misidentified. It throws fresh doubt on whether such technology should be used by law enforcement agencies.
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Did you know that faces recorded through public CCTV cameras are used by facial recognition systems?
Yes
41%
1221 votes
No
59%
1757 votes
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According to BBC, the faces that are a false match for criminals are kept by the police for a few weeks. Does this make you concerned about your privacy and security? Yes
50%
1488 votes
No
28%
819 votes
Undecided
23%
671 votes
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Amazon had previously called a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "misleading". That report had suggested Rekognition performed badly when it came to recognizing women with darker skin. Do you think that facial recognition software is capable of accurately recognizing people of color? Yes
18%
539 votes
No
28%
836 votes
Undecided
54%
1603 votes
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Do you think that security forces should rely strongly on facial recognition technologies? Yes
17%
513 votes
No
47%
1409 votes
Undecided
35%
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