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> But they are trying very hard to not throw all brown people with an accent into detention centers Are you sure about that? There's quite a bit of evidence t
by nobody9999 1y ago
> But they are trying very hard to not throw all brown people with an accent into detention centers
Are you sure about that? There's quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, starting with the really high false-positive[0][1[[2][3][4][5] rates of facial recognition, especially among people of color.
In fact, as the studies linked below show, people of color are misidentified (i.e., false positive) more than 1/3 of the time. That's not nearly accurate enough to round folks up if 10 of every 30 arrested, detained and potentially deported actually aren't the folks you're looking for.
What could possibly go wrong?
[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-recognition-technology-cant-tell-black-people-apart/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-rec...
[1] https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-discrimination-facial-recognition https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-...
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/facial-recognition-race-1.5403899 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/facial-recognition-race-1.54...
[3] https://jusmedia.co.uk/riotandreason/2025/06/02/face-the-bias-how-facial-recognition-fails-people-of-colour/ https://jusmedia.co.uk/riotandreason/2025/06/02/face-the-bia...
[4] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/nist-study-evaluates-effects-race-age-sex-face-recognition-software https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/nist-study-eva...
[5] https://civilrights.org/edfund/2024/09/25/advocates-ring-alarm-on-civil-rights-abuses-of-facial-recognition-technology-in-policing/# https://civilrights.org/edfund/2024/09/25/advocates-ring-ala...