• doppelgangmember@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Not to mention the primarily black population of Louisiana who are disproportionately targeted for crimes will be the greatest number of false positives .

    Due to the common knowledge the facial recognition is severely lacking when it comes to successfully identifying black populations due to darker tones being harder to differentiate.

    This would take an existing problem and magnify it by creating a larger, more automated police state.

    Not to mention data privacy/security, which the LA DMV just got their data hacked in the last two years…

    Seriously a public safety violation all-around.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      Due to the common knowledge the facial recognition is severely lacking when it comes to successfully identifying black populations due to darker tones being harder to differentiate.

      It’s not even this, if you use high quality cameras, black skin can be easily and well photographed.

      The issue is by and large most security cameras use super cheap cameras that don’t have a wide range of color they can capture, so you end up losing all definition on the faces of darker skinned individuals.

      This has been an issue since cameras were first invented, and better cameras that solve this issue were created long ago.

      It’s because our capitalist overlords are cheap bastards.