UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women

Re:UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned... by ben_w on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:51AM (#24716551)

Clear but not easy. I’d be unpleasantly surprised if this is caused by someone having a line saying “if black & rand()<0.15 { reject() }”… although given the recent thing with the 2^16-1 Excel limit for Covid reporting, it certainly isn’t impossible for a U.K. system to be that badly wrong.

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Re:UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned... by iso947 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:58AM (#24716601)

Just because you aren’t explicitly racist doesn’t mean you have unconscious bias that you need to check and control.

The same applies to computer algorithms. The real danger is when those algorithms are treated as without bias.

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Re:UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned... by ben_w on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:00AM (#24717928)

Hence me writing “Clear but not easy.”

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