On: MTA banned from using facial recognition to enforc...

[olliej]

The problem is that that’s essentially what most “facial recognition” systems used for law enforcement and adjacent do: they filter by skin color - false positives are overwhelmingly black.

[cute_boi → olliej]

In that case, they can use human review before accusing anyone.

[Larrikin → cute_boi]

This could be reasonable policy if the police in the US didn't have racial bias in enforcement. It's not even historically

[Shawnj2 → olliej]

Photographic equipment “accidentally” being bad at taking pictures of dark skinned people- the more things change, the more they stay the same

[RecycledEle → olliej]

Why would the false positives be overwhelmingly black unless the fare jumpers are also overwhelmingly black?