Abstract

The varying accuracy of face recognition across race and gender has attracted a good deal of media attention. Publications ranging from the New York Times to Wired have carried headlines like ‘Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy’ and ‘The best algorithms still struggle to recognize black faces equally’ 1, 2, 3 . Press releases by organisations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology 4, 5 have spurred some of this media coverage – which at times has been more sensationalised than well-informed about the technology.

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