So @MayorJohnDennis of West Lafayette, IN says that he will veto an ordinance to ban #facialrecognition despite widespread evidence it's ineffective & discriminatory. Then gives an interview to the local paper showing he has no clue how this tech works 🤦♀️eu.jconline.com/story/news/202…
Let's break this down a bit. @MayorJohnDennis says he'd veto the ordinance, which was brought forward by concerned residents, despite widespread concern from civil rights groups and experts about the ways this technology exacerbates discrimination & harm washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Here's an actual Mayor of an actual city describing to @jconline what he thinks recognition does:
Notably, nearly twenty other cities across the US have already banned this technology.
Notably, nearly twenty other cities across the US have already banned this technology.
Then @MayorJohnDennis starts to really show off his ... uh ... tech expertise, talking about the difference between "passive" and "aggressive" technological ... systems. No clue what he means, but here's some actual research on facial recognition accuracy: news.mit.edu/2018/study-fin…
You might think that after that @MayorJohnDennis would try to stop talking so as not to say anything else embarrassingly wrong about facial recognition.
But then he proceeds to basically blame people of color's facial characteristics for well documented issues of systemic bias.
But then he proceeds to basically blame people of color's facial characteristics for well documented issues of systemic bias.
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