Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
Publication Title
The New York TimesPublication/Creation Date
July 24 2020Creators/Contributors
Kashmir Hill (creator)Media Type
Newspaper ArticlePersuasive Intent
InformationDiscursive Type
Responses To InventionsDescription
"A nationwide debate is raging about racism in law enforcement. Across the country, millions are protesting not just the actions of individual officers, but bias in the systems used to surveil communities and identify people for prosecution.Facial recognition systems have been used by police forces for more than two decades. Recent studies by M.I.T. and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, have found that while the technology works relatively well on white men, the results are less accurate for other demographics, in part because of a lack of diversity in the images used to develop the underlying databases."
HCI Platform
AmbientRelation to Body
AroundRelated Body Part
FaceTechnology Keywords
Facial Recognition , Artificial Intelligence (AI), Algorithms , Databases, Surveillance CamerasMarketing Keywords
Vigilant Solutions, Cognitec, NEC, Rank One Computing, Clearview AI, Dataworks Plus, Amazon, IBM, MicrosoftSource
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