LIVE ONLINE EVENT: Thursday, June 4, 7:00 PM
Featuring director Shalini Kantayya and special guests

The live webinar link will be available here on June 4.

MIT researcher and computer scientist Joy Buolamwini wants the US government to reconsider its use of facial recognition technology after discovering gross inaccuracies in its results—namely, racism. Buolamwini found that developer bias embedded in the algorithms, and reinforced through machine learning, made the controversial technology more likely to falsely identify people with darker skin tones. Increased clandestine use by law enforcement agencies around the globe has prompted activist organizations like Big Brother Watch UK to take action in an effort to protect citizens’ rights, but many don’t even realize that facial recognition technology is in use, nor understand the serious risks it presents to privacy and civil liberties. Meanwhile, the implementation of China’s social credit system forecasts an end to privacy altogether. Both informative and cautionary, Coded Bias is a reminder that “big data” is not only the result of human programming, it is subject to it as well. Nataleah Hunter-Young

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