On June 11, 2020, the E-Commerce giant Amazon banned the use of its software “Rekognition” by the police. The software used to quickly compare a picture with the police data bases that holds hundreds of 1000s of photos.
Why the ban?
- The facial recognition technology has been criticized over some time.
- This is mainly because, most of the algorithms of the Rekognition software are more likely to wrongly identify the faces of black people than those of white people.
Recognition
- The Amazon Rekognition software was launched in 2016.
- It was sold and used by a number of US government agencies.
What is the controversy?
- The Gender Identification technology of Rekognition software identifies faces as only male and female.
- There is no category for nonbinary gender.
- According to MIT researchers, the errors in the face recognition system is more.
- Though it is reducing year after year, the performance of the software on female faces were less accurate than that of male faces.
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