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Facial recognition works best if you're a white guy

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Published Mon, Feb 12, 2018 · 09:50 PM

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    FACIAL recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell the gender of a person in a photograph.

    When the person in the photo is a white man, the software is right 99 per cent of the time.

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