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Facial Recognition Software Regularly Misgenders Trans People
Vice News ^ | Feb 19, 2019 | Matthew Gault

Posted on 02/22/2019 11:11:53 AM PST by Trump20162020

Facial recognition software is a billion dollar industry, with Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook developing systems, some of which have been sold to governments and private companies. Those systems are a nightmare for various reasons—some systems have, for example, been shown to misidentify black people in criminal databases while others have been unable to see black faces at all.

The problems can be severe for transgender and nonbinary people because most facial recognition software is programmed to sort people into two groups—male or female. Because these systems aren’t designed with transgender and gender nonconforming people in mind, something as common as catching a flight can become a complicated nightmare. It’s a problem that will only get worse as the TSA moves to a full biometric system at all airports and facial recognition technology spreads.

These biases programmed into facial recognition software means that transgender and gender nonconforming people may not be able to use facial recognition advancements that are at least nominally intended to make people’s lives easier, and, perhaps more importantly, may be unfairly targeted, discriminated against, misgendered, or otherwise misidentified by the creeping surveillance state's facial recognition software.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: amazon; apple; dnadontchangeever; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; facebook; fascistbook; genderdysphoria; goddeterminesyourdna; homosexualagenda; lgbt; markzuckerberg; matthewgault; mediawingofthednc; microsoft; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trannies; tranny; transgender; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 02/22/2019 11:11:53 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

What say ye Michelle Obama?


2 posted on 02/22/2019 11:13:28 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Trump20162020

What’s the problem? If you are a man pretending to be a woman, but it thinks you are a man? Hmm, seems like it is working right.


3 posted on 02/22/2019 11:14:07 AM PST by T. P. Pole
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One out of 300 ain’t too bad.


4 posted on 02/22/2019 11:14:08 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Trump20162020

Systems not designed with trans people in mind?

So then, the people who design these systems are bigots.

Per liberal criteria, they must be bigoted to think there are only two sexes.

How can this ever work? A trans female, has a man’s facial structure. That doesn’t change even if someone decides they are a woman trapped in a man’s body.


5 posted on 02/22/2019 11:16:43 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Trump20162020

Is it the program misidentifying the gender confused or are the confused misidentifying their genders?

Supporting and condoning this crap is really just enabling dysfunction.


6 posted on 02/22/2019 11:17:26 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Trump20162020

That’s because XX and XY don’t lie.


7 posted on 02/22/2019 11:17:38 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Grimmy

Supporting and condoning this crap is really just enabling dysfunction.
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It’s causing society to become as dysfunctional as they are.


8 posted on 02/22/2019 11:19:22 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trump20162020

Its a software problem, but the problem isn’t with the facial recognition program.
The transmuts and gender confused need THEIR software checked out.
Maybe if we cleaned the hard drive, like with a cloth....


9 posted on 02/22/2019 11:19:53 AM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: Trump20162020

Even the computer knows it is one or the other. The computer is always right...……………………….


10 posted on 02/22/2019 11:20:25 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Trump20162020

Facial recognition software regularly identifies mentally deranged perverts correctly.


11 posted on 02/22/2019 11:21:34 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Trump20162020

How ironic...The machine has no interest in playing in a fantasy world.


12 posted on 02/22/2019 11:21:58 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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CNN Headline - Facial Recognition Software Guilty of Transphobic Hate Crimes


13 posted on 02/22/2019 11:22:16 AM PST by HombreSecreto (Ann Coulter - America's "Heroin Conservative")
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To: Trump20162020

It’s a guy, so...


14 posted on 02/22/2019 11:22:32 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Trump's America Facial Recognition Software Guilty of Transphobic Hate Crimes

There. Fixed it.

15 posted on 02/22/2019 11:27:15 AM PST by Texas Eagle
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I wonder why any conservative American should give a crap.


16 posted on 02/22/2019 11:31:06 AM PST by PSUGOP
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LOL


17 posted on 02/22/2019 11:31:44 AM PST by HombreSecreto (Ann Coulter - America's "Heroin Conservative")
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To: Trump20162020

Computers don’t care about Trannies’ hurt feelings. Men and women diverge in terms of facial shape, bone structure, nose size, skin, facial hair, etc. If the software recognizes those differences and classes them accordingly, it’s not a bug. Deal with it, freaks.


18 posted on 02/22/2019 11:35:13 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Trump20162020

Does it Mis-gender them or does it tell the truth instead of their self-delusion preference?


19 posted on 02/22/2019 11:36:40 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Trump20162020

Well, it’s obvious, itn’tit? The inventors were phobes.


20 posted on 02/22/2019 11:40:01 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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