AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians As Criminals

After months of public concerns surrounding facial recognition's implications for data privacy, surveillance and racial bias, tech companies and governments alike are putting stoppers down on the technology until adequate regulation is proposed. Threatpost talks to Paul Bischoff, consumer privacy expert with Comparitech, about recent research showcasing flaws in the accuracy of Amazon's facial recognition platform - and why concerns around racial bias and data privacy aren't going away anytime soon.