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Google apologises after photo app mislabels black couple
Published Thu, Jul 2, 2015 · 09:50 PM
San Francisco
GOOGLE has apologised after an identification program in its new photo app put a "gorillas" label on a picture of a black couple.
"We're appalled and genuinely sorry that this happened," a Google representative said late on Wednesday in an email to AFP.
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