Amanda Levendowski, ‘Resisting Face Surveillance with Copyright Law’, 100 North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming, 2022), available at SSRN. One prevailing feature of technological development is that it is not sui generis. Rather, new technologies often mirror or reflect societal anxieties and prejudices. This is true for surveillance technologies, including those used for facial recognition. Although the practice of facial recognition might be positioned as a type of convincing evidence useful for identifying an individual, the fact remains that racial and gender biases can limit its efficacy. Scholars such as as Timnit Gebru and Joy Buolawmini have shown through empirical evidence that facial recognition systems, which are often trained on limited data, display stunningly biased inaccuracy … (more)
[Ifeoma Ajunwa, JOTWELL, 12 May]
First posted 2022-05-13 11:30:54
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