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Amazon’s Rekognition Still Showing Signs of Racial Bias

As facial recognition systems become more common, Amazon has emerged as a frontrunner in the field, courting customers around the US, including police departments and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But experts say the company is not doing enough to allay fears about bias in its algorithms, particularly when it comes to performance on faces with darker skin. In research published by MIT’s Joy Buolamwini last February, which identified similar […]

todayJanuary 30, 2019

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