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Facial recognition misidentifies people of color more often.
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Is it true that facial recognition misidentifies people of color more often?
Yes. A Wikipedia reference entry reports a study finding commercial facial recognition error rates of 23.8% to 36% for women of color versus 0.0 to 1.6% for lighter-skinned men. Other sources assert that biased systems cause misidentifications disproportionately affecting people of color, though without comparative rates.
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Facial recognition system. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system
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Amador-Lankster, V. (2025). Facial Recognition in Policing: How Algorithmic Bias Targets People of Color. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5070/lr3.47403
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The struggle for recognition in the age of facial recognition technology. (n.d.). link.springer.com. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43681-022-00146-8.pdf
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