Last month, members of the California legislature were subject to a surveillance experiment, courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union. Their portraits were fed into Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition software and compared with a database of 25,000 arrest mug shots. Twenty-six lawmakers were incorrectly identified as matches. The would-be suspects included Assemblyman Phil Ting, a …
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