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Donavan McKinney: “Facial recognition technology was 70 to 80% wrong for black…”

Featuring: Donavan McKinney, Michigan House of Representatives, District 11

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CAN DETROIT ELECT A PROGRESSIVE? | Donavan McKinney

Published | Video Starts at 1:06:36

And so, you know, there was some pushback in terms of, like, facial recognition at one point in time. Right. Because … Facial recognition technology was 70 to 80% wrong for black individuals with beards. … Accuracy. And so like there was some pushback with the like facial recognition, but people actually wanted, at least in the black community in Detroit, they wanted to feel more … (1:06:36–1:06:43)

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Asserts that facial recognition technology had a high error rate for black individuals with beards.

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