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Inequitable Algorithms: Facial Recognition’s Alarming Pattern of Misidentifying Black Individuals Sparks Calls for Reform

Facial recognition technology is being blamed for disproportionately arresting Black people due to the lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets, and a 61-year-old grandfather is suing Sunglass Hut’s parent company after his arrest after the store’s facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a robber.