(AEEC) Connor Burri, Patrick O’Mullan, Matthew Spofford, Alex Young Categorization of people has been a challenging topic for centuries. With developing technologies in the realms of genetics and biometrics, we are for the first time able to accurately categorize people based not just by appearance, but by the molecules that encode their being. However, these… Read more Adversities of the Biometrics and Genetics Industries
The Boring and Exciting World of Biometrics We believe that this article would be a great addition to this weeks discussions, because it connects to the majority of our discussion from class today (9/17/18). The author goes through the entire line of thinking that occurs when talking about biometrics, starting with a wonderment at how… Read more BIFSTOU Article Nomination
Our nomination is FBI Wish List: An App That Can Recognize the Meaning of Your Tattoos by Dave Maass. This article relates to our class discussion of how biometric technology can be used to profile people for subjective reasons. The article describes how biometric technology can be used to not only identify criminals by their… Read more (ACHSRE) Article Nomination
Our article is “Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem” by Clare Garvie and Johnathan Frankle. This article is similar to those in classes and focuses on the idea of Facial Identification and possible biases/inaccuracies which were unintentionally created in the program during the development process. Below is the link to the article. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/the-underlying-bias-of-facial-recognition-systems/476991/
David Reich’s article in the New York Times (March 23, 2018) An open letter produced by a group of 67 scientists and researchers in response to David Reich’s article and book (March 30, 2018)