Garbage In, Garbage Out: Face Recognition on Flawed Data

Focus: Methods or Design

Source: Georgetown Law

Readability: Intermediate

Type: Website Article

Open Source: No

Keywords: N/A

Learn Tags: Data Tools Design/Methods Ethics Fairness Solution Trust

Summary: U.S. police departments have few rules for what images they can submit to face recognition algorithms to generate investigative leads. As a consequence, agencies can submit all manner of photos of unknown individuals for search against a police or driver licence database.