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Oh I fully agree that structural racism is a big issue that needs to be tackled with a lot more energy than currently.
But facial recognition technology is not that good at identifying one of the main groups of people the police like to pick on has a sweet irony to it.
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Dark skin is harder to interpret for the current iteration of the technology. The gadget should never have left QA in that state, and the fact that it did tells you there were no dark skinned people around during testing. Talking about structural racism in these matters isn't unreasonable.