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Sci Tech 7/14/2019 at 10:36 AM EDT

The Racist History Behind Facial Recognition : we cannot predict people's character from their appearance

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"ICE used facial recognition on millions of driver’s license photographs without the license-holders’ knowledge, the latest revelation about governments employing the technology in ways that threaten civil liberties."New applications of facial recognition — not just in academic research, but also in commercial products that try to guess emotions from facial expressions — echo the same theory behind discredited pseudosciences of physiognomy& phrenology, which purport to use facial structure and head shape to assess character and mental capacity. A pparently, we still haven’t learned that faces do not contain some deeper truth about the people they belong to."

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