Amazon's face recognition system ranks 28 members of Congress as criminals

The American Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU) revealed that she had tested an Amazon face recognition system known as Amazon Rekognition, wrongly clbadifying 28 members of Congress Americans as suspected by the police for certain crimes, lawmakers have been working on this technology, especially since Amazon markets this system to law enforcement agencies in the United States.

According to the American DigitalArtls website, the American Civil Liberties Union has downloaded the Amazon system with a database of 25,000 records. Criminally for criminals and your crime And then pbaded official photos of all 535 members of Congress during the Rekognition program in order to find out which of these images could match the database and ended up matching the images of 28 members, including the 28 system failures in recognition of 6 members because they are dark-skinned, including John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia.

The American Civil Liberties Union lobbied Amazon since May 2018 to stop the sale of the Rekognition system to law enforcement, the tool can be used to target immigrant D & # 39; as far as their color is unfair, as a study of the American Union has shown the problem of racial prejudice suffered by the Amazon system, because the Amazon system has not identified the 39% members because 39 they have dark skin. Made by a facial recognition program.