Algorithmic bias

3 entries between May 2016 and June 2020.

Every entry

  1. IBM, Amazon and Microsoft step back from police face recognition

    IBM said on 8 June 2020 that it would stop selling facial recognition. Amazon announced a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition on 10 June, and Microsoft said on 11 June it would not sell the technology to US police until a national law governed it.

  2. Amazon Rekognition falsely matches 28 members of Congress

    The ACLU of Northern California ran photographs of every member of the US House and Senate against a database of 25,000 public mugshots against Amazon’s Rekognition, and reported 28 false matches on 26 July 2018. Members of color were 39% of the errors and 20% of Congress.

  3. ProPublica reports racial bias in COMPAS risk scores

    Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner analyzed Northpointe’s COMPAS recidivism software, used by courts across the United States, and found Black defendants nearly twice as likely as white defendants to be wrongly flagged as high risk.