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There are already several anti-bias and discrimination laws on the books. Why does facial recognition warrant additional regulation? Numerous processes already
by matchagaucho 8y ago
There are already several anti-bias and discrimination laws on the books. Why does facial recognition warrant additional regulation?
Numerous processes already capture gender, race, and age.
Facial recognition seems like a better/faster tool for capturing these data points. But the requirement to comply with existing laws is unchanged.
Any further regulation will only limit the development of facial technology to a few large players that can afford compliance and enforcement measures.
- int_19h 8y ago> There are already several anti-bias and discrimination laws on the books. Why does facial recognition warrant additional regulation? Mainly because many companies doing it are arguing that when their models produce biased results, it's not their fault, it's just "computer thinks that way". So far as I know, this approach hasn't been properly tested in court, but it might just fly, if courts decide that you need to have intent to discriminate (and that training on real-world datasets, that are always implicitly biased, does not constitute such intent).