A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
I promise I’m more aware of all the studies, technologies, and companies involved. I worked in the industry for many years.
The technical studies you’re referring to show that the difference between a white man and a black woman (usually polar opposite in terms of results) is around 0.000001% error rate. But this usually gets blown out of proportion by media outlets.
If you have white men at 0.000001% error rate and black women at 0.000002% error rate, then what gets reported is “facial recognition for black women is 2 times worse than for white men”.
It’s technically true, but in practice it’s a misleading and disingenuous statement.
Would you kindly link some studies backing up your claims, then? Because nothing I’ve seen online has similar numbers to what you’re claiming