Washington state county becomes first in U.S. to ban facial recognition software over racism concerns

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Washington state county becomes first in U.S. to ban facial recognition software over racism concerns
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King County's ban on facial recognition software is 'an important step forward in the effort to stop government use of this harmful and racist technology,' said Jennifer Lee of ACLU Washington.

from different backgrounds who all agreed on the ban. At first, she did not know what kind of reaction she would get about it, she said.

Civil rights groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations praised King County's ban on facial recognition software. Brianna Auffray, a legal and policy manager at CAIR Washington, said the rest of the state and the nation should follow the actions of King County.

She mentioned a study by National Institute of Standards and Technology on face recognition software that found false positives are up to 100 times more likely for Asian and Black faces, compared with white faces.

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