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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 85 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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!

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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