{"id":31771,"date":"2018-02-12T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31771"},"modified":"2018-02-12T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:45:00","slug":"nytimes-facial-recognition-is-accurate-if-youre-a-white-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31771","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You&#8217;re a White Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/09\/technology\/facial-recognition-race-artificial-intelligence.html\">Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You&#8217;re a White Guy<\/a> by Steve Lohr: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the person in the photo is a white man, the software is right 99 percent of the time. But the darker the skin, the more errors arise &#8211; up to nearly 35 percent for images of darker skinned women, according to a new study that breaks fresh ground by measuring how the technology works on people of different races and gender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They all look alike to me&#8221; written into software. I can see this coming up in a mistaken ID case, which, by coincidence, is in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2018\/feb\/12\/mistakenly-id-d-as-suspect-man-now-aski\/\">local paper today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You&#8217;re a White Guy by Steve Lohr: When the person in the photo is a white man, the software is right 99 percent of the time. But the darker the skin, the more errors &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31774,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31771\/revisions\/31774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}