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Are biometric systems not accurate? The whole point of this is so that they aren't "looking for some rando with a beard."

• guappa 3y ago
  > Are biometric systems not accurate? They are very inaccurate, especially face recognition on dark people, which palestinians are, is going to be a crapshot.
  • ch4s3 3y ago
    I responded below about how they're probably training on photos of locals, but it's also worth noting that Palestinians, Israelis, and Lebanese people are all quite similar looking on average and have quite a bit of phenotype diversity. A well known Palestinian activist (Ahed Tamimi) in the West Bank famously has red hair, light skin, and freckles. Former congressman Justin Amash is half Palestinian and just looks like a Midwestern guy with a tan.
    • guappa 3y ago
      Several israeli are eastern europeans, I'd expect that palestinians are much darker than all the israeli that moved there during USSR times.
      • ch4s3 3y ago
        The ashkenazi population is about 30% of Israeli Jews, and Arab Israelis are about 21% of the population. Palestinians have a fair amount of Anatolian, Lebanese, Armenian, and Iranian ancestry. So again there’s quite a bit of phenotypic variation. There’s also a high degree of genetic relatedness to even the Ashkenazi Jews. In practice if you lined up 100 random Israelis and Palestinians you aren’t going to reliably determine who is who based on appearances.