‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future
New York TimesAPR 2022
Facial recognition has a well-known problem of identifying dark-faced people, a flaw that is likely to aggravate racial profiling and lead to wrongful arrests as officers — believing that these programs are foolproof — may use this technology to confirm their own biases. While inevitable, the adoption of facial recognition by law enforcement must be coupled with training on its problems and historical discrimination.
Despite being echoed by the leftist camp and resulting in curtailment of the technology, claims that facial recognition is racist and aggravates disparities toward Black and Brown communities are completely groundless as differences in false positives across races were undetectable among the most accurate algorithms. Rather than racism, the actual issue regarding this technology is privacy.