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Reuters did a great piece on Ride Aid's facial recognition in 2020: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/ https://www.reuter

• dang 3y ago
  Discussed at the time: Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975255 - July 2020 (293 comments)
• huytersd 3y ago
  How do they expect the Chinese to even train on white, black and Latino people recognition.
  • staunton 3y ago
    Just buy some datasets
  • defrost 3y ago
    Surely Tik-Tok is the quiet answer out loud here?
  • vaxman 3y ago
    I know you’re being sarcastic, but note China holds significant, almost colonial, investments in Africa and Latin America. Those investments include control of the telecommunications infrastructure carrying all the data they could ever want from those areas.