Banned in PDX: The Podcast Series Tracking Portland’s Groundbreaking Facial Recognition Ban
Throughout the summer of 2020, RedTail’s Kate Kaye tracked Portland, OR’s groundbreaking facial recognition ban through this scripted podcast series.
Throughout the summer of 2020, RedTail’s Kate Kaye tracked Portland, OR’s groundbreaking facial recognition ban through this scripted podcast series.
Amid data-scraping concerns and ethics board debacles, there’s a growing movement to change how corporations and academics gather and employ data for research.
While touting top rankings in a globally-watched accuracy test, Microsoft is pushing for facial recognition regulations that could expose accuracy levels of its competitors’ technologies. Meanwhile, civil liberties advocates worry the overall improvement of industry algorithms could lead to greater adoption of technologies that are not developed or employed in an ethical manner.