The study, titled “Performance Differentials in Deployed Biometric Systems Caused by Open-Source Face Detectors,” examined ...

This is not to say that facial-recognition algorithms are “racist,” or that racial bias has been intentionally introduced into how they operate.

In an update Tuesday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology looked at 41 facial recognition algorithms submitted after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in mid-March.

The resulting algorithm is mainly tested on people of their race. As such many U.S.-made algorithms “learn” by looking at more white faces, which fails to help them recognize people of other ...

In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit. “This is not me,” Robert Julian-Borchak ...