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Indian police use facial recognition app to reunite families with lost children →

February 14, 2020 by Oliver Gordon

Tens of thousands of children go missing every year in India and many are trafficked to work in eateries, handicraft industries, brick kilns, factories or into begging and brothels. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION

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February 14, 2020 /Oliver Gordon
india, facial recognition, app, lost children, human trafficking
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Report: Facial recognition should be banned from everyday life →

December 16, 2019 by Oliver Gordon

AI Now’s report argues that because AI tools like facial recognition, and especially emotion-detecting algorithms, can be highly inaccurate — and propagate systematic racial and gender biases — they should be removed from society. FUTURISM

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December 16, 2019 /Oliver Gordon
artificial intelligence, facial recognition, research
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