IBM trained its object recognition software to ID people by skin tone using NYPD data
Campaigners say that the software could easily be used for large-scale racial profiling
The September 11th attacks in 2001 prompted a huge increase in security across the world, nowhere more so than in New York City itself. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) massively increased its...
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