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The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age - A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over time(www.technologyreview.com)

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BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works
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US with new technology:

To help fight human trafficking? No

To help find abducted children? No

To catch “illegal” brown kids trying to go to school? Hell yeah!

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nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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You just know they’re training the AI on people who never had a choice to say no and at the end of the day many of those same people are going to end up being trafficked by ICE or some individual agent anyway. Theres a reason they under report how many people are in their custody.

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thefartographer@lemm.ee
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Engineer: I created new technology that can make us rich beyond our wildest dreams because of the number of people it’ll benefit!

Billionaires: Let’s tweak that a little. I’d rather decide who has to be poor

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