Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates

Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by bko on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:33PM (#20659603)

From your story it seems like human guards are profiling African Americans and Latinos now. At least with a bot you'd be able to explicitly prevent them from doing so. Probably a lot harder to prevent a human from using biases

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by closeparen on Saturday August 10, 2019 @01:24AM (#20660357)

Machine learning - using statistical associations between features in a large population to make predictions about individuals - is profiling. There is no such thing as removing profiling from machine learning. The profiling is the only thing there.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by ceejayoz on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:20PM (#20659933)

> At least with a bot you'd be able to explicitly prevent them from doing so.

Not really. They're really good at finding a proxy for the banned characteristic.

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