Facial Recognition
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Véliz: Facial recognition surveillance erodes protest anonymity vital to democracy
“When you have a protest, and in particular, a peaceful protest, It's very important to have anonymity. That is one of the bedrocks of democracy, and when you have cameras all over the place, and now with facial recognition being so easy to use, you are eroding…”
Flock Safety avoids facial recognition due to controversy
“We don't do facial recognition for that reason, because it's too controversial, but that's, it's counterintuitive to me when the technology gets better every day.”
Becker: Clear's face-first NV technology verifies identity five times faster
“We are face first with our NVs, which makes it, you know, five times faster to verify”
Khan: NYPD testified it lacks accuracy data for its facial recognition systems
“When we asked the NYPD for its own data on the bias and the accuracy of this technology, when we wanted to look underneath the algorithmic hood at how this system is operating, they told us under oath they don't have any data on how accurate this technology is…”
Benedict Evans: Banning facial recognition is absurd because ML is commoditized
“But in general, machine learning has become a commodity very quickly which is sort of the absurdity of people saying, well, we have to ban face recognition, or you can ban it, but that won't work. Cause it's just a commodity technology.”