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What do you get when you put a bunch of photos of the FBI's most wanted into Amazon's celebrity recognition tool? A 97% certainty that a suspected triple-murderer is also Bob Ross.

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We ran photos from the FBI's historical Most Wanted list and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's mugshot identification database through the Amazon tool.

It returned 18 matches that identified criminals as celebrities or politicians with 95% to 100% confidence.
The confidence levels raised concerns, because Amazon has pitched its Rekognition platform to law enforcement agencies for facial surveillance.

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Amazon says we shouldn't worry about this because confidence scores don’t work the same way on its celebrity recognition tool and its facial recognition tool — even though they are part of the same Rekognition platform.

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We could be fact-checking his speech, but we want to try something different. Rather than responding to a crisis of his administration's own making, here’s the reality at the border:
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These 10 girls are different ages, from different states, and have different upbringings. But they have one thing in common.

They were all allegedly killed before the age of 20 by a man they at one point had a romantic relationship with buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…
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The Libya conflict, which started in 2011, was the first major war that took place entirely during the social media era. Militants and civilians documented the conflict in real time.

This has fundamentally shifted how war crimes are prosecuted. A thread: buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
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