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Re:Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control by jacquesm on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:01PM (#13973117)
You mean that it would work better with darker skin?
Re:Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control by handedness on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:01PM (#13978966)
What if the technical challenges of identifying a person's face mean it will always be challenging to identify someone when the light and/or contrast levels are lower? What then? Manually cripple the system and misidentify white suspects, too?

This post's comments are a great example of why technologists are fairly terrible at engineering social solutions, much the same way sociologists tend to be terrible at engineering technical solutions.