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Demographic Bias in Biometric Facial Recognition
Although demographic bias has sometimes been an issue with large-scale law enforcement biometric systems (10,000,000+), these results do not translate to a smaller-scale pure opt-in, voluntary systems.
Ethical AI: Demographic Bias in Biometrics
How accurate are biometric systems? Is demographic bias an important issue?
About the San Francisco Ban on Face Recognition Technology
San Francisco is the first city in the United States to adopt a ban on government use of facial recognition technology. What do we think of that at Blink Identity?
ACLU Yanks Congress' Chain About Amazon's Face Recognition
The ACLU did an experiment comparing a criminal watch list to members of Congress. The results got a lot of press but actually weren’t at all surprising.
Accuracy of Police Face Recognition Systems
There have been a bunch of articles published recently about the terrible accuracy of facial recognition technology used by the police. This sounds really bad, but to understand it, you have to understand accuracy in biometrics.
Marbles and Probability
A recent blog post mentioned that the Android and Apple phone specifications call for at least a 1 in 50,000 probability of a false match. In other words, a randomly selected imposter will have a 1 in 50,000 chance of unlocking your phone with his fingerprint. Let’s visualize that.