A bill - called Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance - was proposed by Aaron Peskin (above), a member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, on Tuesday
San Francisco could become the first city in the U.S. to ban the use of facial recognition technology.
A bill - called Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance - was proposed by Aaron Peskin, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, on Tuesday.
One of his main concerns about the technology is its potential to show bias when identifying people of color.
'We know that facial recognition technology, which has the biases of the people who developed it, disproportionately misidentifies people of color and women. This is a fact,' Peskin said on Tuesday, according to the San Francisco Examiner.
The proposal states that the risks of facial recognition detection 'substantially outweigh... its purported benefits, and the technology will exacerbate racial injustice and threaten our ability to live free of continuous government monitoring'.
'Our intent is to catch people's attention and have a broader conversation as to where the moral precipice is for technology, after which you've gone too far,' Lee Hepner, a legislative aide to Supervisor Peskin told Ars Technica.
'This is a harm to our way of life, a harm to our democracy, and a harm to marginalized communities. There is a salient interest in facial recognition, too: it creeps people out.'
The proposal could see San Francisco become the first city in the U.S. to ban the use of facial recognition technology. Peskin said: 'We know that facial recognition technology, which has the biases of the people who developed it, disproportionately misidentifies people of color and women. This is a fact'
The ordinance would also require city agencies to gain the Board of Supervisors' approval before buying any new surveillance technology.
In addition, city officials would have to supply an audit of any existing monitoring kit already in use - such as automatic license plate readers and surveillance cameras - along with an annual report detailing how the tech was used, who they shared data with, and any community complaints, Wired reported.
The legislation is set to be heard in committee next month, and it has gained support from civil rights groups, including the ACLU of Northern California.
The news comes as privacy and civil rights advocates have called on Amazon to stop marketing its facial detection service, called Rekognition - because of worries about discrimination against minorities.
The tech, which Amazon is marketing to law enforcement, often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin, according to researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto.
Some Amazon investors have also asked the company to stop out of fear that it makes Amazon vulnerable to lawsuits.
Matt Wood, general manager of artificial intelligence with Amazon's cloud-computing unit, said the MIT/University of Toronto study uses a 'facial analysis' and not 'facial recognition' technology.
Wood said facial analysis 'can spot faces in videos or images and assign generic attributes such as wearing glasses; recognition is a different technique by which an individual face is matched to faces in videos and images'.
The bill comes as privacy and civil rights advocates have called on Amazon to stop marketing its facial detection service, called Rekognition - because of worries about discrimination against minorities
In a post on the Medium website last Friday, MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini responded that companies should check all systems that analyze human faces for bias.
'If you sell one system that has been shown to have bias on human faces, it is doubtful your other face-based products are also completely bias free,' she wrote.
Amazon's reaction shows that it isn't taking the 'really grave concerns revealed by this study seriously,' said Jacob Snow, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Buolamwini and Inioluwa Deborah Raji of the University of Toronto said they studied Amazon's technology because the company has marketed it to law enforcement.
Raji's LinkedIn account says she is currently a research mentee for artificial intelligence at Google, which competes with Amazon in offering cloud-computing services.
Buolamwini and Raji say Microsoft and IBM have improved their facial recognition technology since researchers discovered similar problems in a May 2017 study. Their second study, which included Amazon, was done in August 2018.
Wood said Amazon has updated its technology since the study and done its own analysis with 'zero false positive matches'.
Amazon's website credits Rekognition for helping the Washington County Sheriff Office in Oregon speed up how long it took to identify suspects from hundreds of thousands of photo records.
HOW DO RESEARCHERS DETERMINE IF AN AI IS 'RACIST'?
In a new study titled Gender Shades, team of researchers discovered that popular facial recognition services from Microsoft, IBM and Face++ can discriminate based on gender and race
The data set was made up of 1,270 photos of parliamentarians from three African nations and three Nordic countries where women held positions
The faces were selected to represent a broad range of human skin tones, using a labeling system developed by dermatologists, called the Fitzpatrick scale
All three services worked better on white, male faces and had the highest error rates on dark-skinned males and females
Microsoft was unable to detect darker-skinned females 21% of the time, while IBM and Face++ wouldn't work on darker-skinned females in roughly 35% of cases
The study tried to find out whether Microsoft, IBM and Face++'s facial recognition systems were discriminating based on gender and race. Researchers found that Microsoft's systems were unable to correctly identify darker-skinned females 21% of the time, while IBM and Face++ had an error rate of about 35%
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A bill – called Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance – was proposed by Aaron Peskin (above), a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, on Tuesday
San Francisco could become the first city in the U.S. to ban the use of facial recognition technology.
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