Re:TSA Says Theyre Not Discriminating Against Black Women bu...
by DuskStar on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:38PM
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I think the major difference here is immutable vs mutable characteristics. You can choose your hairstyle, but not what your face looks like.
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Re:TSA Says Theyre Not Discriminating Against Black Women bu...
by danso on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:07PM
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Eyes are mutable. Double-eyelid surgery is cheap and common enough in South Korea for it to be a graduation present, and as many as 1/3 of young women have undergone cosmetic surgery [0]. But the overriding point is that Asian countries have developed face detection and recognition for their populations, because the utility and value of the software would be dubious without it. For the U.S. to not seek to invest in its own software would be open for a legal challenge.
[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/05/581765974/...