The police in America is using facial recognition software to match security footage of crimes to people. Kashmir Hill describes for the New York Times another example of a wrong match leading to a wrongful arrest.
Continue reading “Another false facial recognition match: pregnant woman wrongfully arrested”Dutch police used algorithm to predict violent behaviour without any safeguards
For many years the Dutch police has used a risk modeling algorithm to predict the chance that an individual suspect will commit a violent crime. Follow the Money exposed the total lack of a moral, legal, and statistical justification for its use, and now the police has stopped using the system.
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The Philippines is one of the countries that has more than two million people perform crowdwork, such as data annotation, according to informal government estimates.
Continue reading “Filipino workers in “digital sweatshops” train AI models for the West”Racist Technology in Action: The World Bank’s Poverty Targeting Algorithms Deprives People of Social Security
A system funded by the World Bank to assess who is most in need of support, is reported to not only be faulty but also discriminatory and depriving many of their right to social security. In a recent report titled “Automated Neglect: How The World Bank’s Push to Allocate Cash Assistance Using Algorithms Threatens Rights” Human Rights Watch outlines how specifically the system used in Joran should be abandoned.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: The World Bank’s Poverty Targeting Algorithms Deprives People of Social Security”Events, exhibits and other things to do
Starting September 2nd, 2023.
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