Advocacy groups and lawmakers renew calls for ban on government use of facial recognition technology in wake of sweeping new study that found a majority of the software exhibits a racial bias.
"This study makes it clear: the government needs to stop using facial recognition surveillance right now," Evan Greer, the deputy director of Fight for the Future, a nonprofit digital rights advocacy group, told ABC News in a statement.
"Even if the algorithms improve in the future, biometric surveillance like face recognition is dangerous and invasive," Greer said."Lawmakers everywhere should take action to ban the use of this nuclear-grade surveillance tech."In this Dec. 4, 2019 file photo commuters pass through the World Trade Center in New York.
For"one-to-many" matches, which determine whether a photo of a person has any match in a database -- and is often what is used for identifying persons of interest -- the researchers found higher rates of false positives for African American women. The team emphasized that different algorithms had very different results when it came to the prevalence of false-negatives.
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