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This week, Google announced its new Pixel 4 phone. One of the features it touted was Face Unlock, which uses facial recognition to unlock the phone. But the advancement came with a price - for black people.
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Links to resources discussed:
From the New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-google-darker-skin-tones-facial-recognition-pixel-20191002-5vxpgowknffnvbmy5eg7epsf34-story.html
From The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/8934804/google-pixel-4-face-scanning-data-collection
Ruha Benjamin
https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology
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@ruha9
Hosts:
Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset
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