Image Recognition
But bias within facial recognition could create new barriers to unemployment benefits, critics warn, putting women and people of color at a disadvantage. In that scenario, 95% would still mean more than 163,000 people could not verify their identity through facial recognition. Things like facial hair, glasses or makeup can also throw off facial recognition. “I knew that they were using facial recognition to try and reduce benefit fraud and having spent really the last three years researching facial recognition, and the implications of it for people who are non-white, people with dark skins, that really, really concerned me,” she said. “Principally because facial recognition technology does not work in the way that it’s intended.