Restore the Fourth
Private retailer use of facial recognition technology has been in the news lately, with a story out of Detroit of a young Black girl being ejected from a private business due to a FRT misidentification. Lamya Robinson was kicked out of a roller skating rink after facial recognition technology that the business was using “identified” […]
Rudimentary Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) was pioneered in the 1960s and even then the government quickly realized what implications FRT could have for policing and security. If one could use a computer to quickly look for the identity of suspects, they could effectively automate an extremely labor intensive aspect of policing—saving money in the long […]