How bad facial recognition software gets Black people arrested

Yet another way the US justice oppresses Black and Brown communities

Ari Joury, PhD
Towards Data Science
8 min readJun 12, 2020

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People demonstrating for Black Lives Matter
Black people get mismatched more often by facial recognition software. Photo by frankie cordoba on Unsplash

The riots all over the US are reminding us, once again, of the blatant oppression of people of color by predominantly White people. But while police murders are in focus right now, we shouldn’t be forgetting about the subtler tools that the…

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