#FacialRecognition is good but it is not perfect yet - in fact it is really bad for dark-skinned persons - The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the #police via @MIT @F... | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In June of 2018, in the midst of all the other letters demanding that the company stop police use of Rekognition, Raji and Buolamwini expanded the Gender Shades audit to encompass its performance. The results, published half a year later in a peer-reviewed paper, once again found huge technical inaccuracies. Rekognition was classifying the gender of dark-skinned women 31.4 percentage points less accurately than that of light-skinned men.