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Re:He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to ... by cutemonster on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:39PM (#25564104)
> This is exactly the same like saying ..

No it's not.

Shadows are harder to notice on black skin for example.

And it's important to improve the tech and try to make it work fine for everyone

But then you'll need to first realize that by default the tech is sometimes going to be broken for a group of people.

Otherwise how can you be aware about that there's a problem to solve.

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Re:He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to ... by pmiller2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:18PM (#25564496)
Thank you. I appreciate that you recognize what I wrote here versus what some people apparently want to read into it.

And, just to continue the anecdote where the camera turned my friend green, y'all know it's not like anybody said "Hey, $FRINEDS_NAME, can you just be less black, or something?" In fact, what we did was all laugh together (including our friend, the subject of the photo), joke a little, and, IIRC, take a digital portrait.

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