In 2018, a man was arrested for stealing a pair of socks from a T.J. Maxx store in New York City, even though he was signed in at a hospital for the birth of his child when the crime was committed.The anecdote opens a landmark report on facial recognition from the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, which found that law enforcement agencies are often using the technology as the sole basis for putting people in jail despite claiming they don’t and despite a growing body of evidence that the technology has serious problems with accuracy and bias.“Not only has that assumption never been tested, there is every reason to posit that face recognition doesn’t produce reliable leads and in fact may put people at risk of misidentification and wrongful arrest.”Studies show that facial recognition is less accurate when tasked with identifying the faces of women and people of color—particularly people with darker complexions.With support for HDR 10, you can achieve brilliant color performance ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and more.Due to a lack of transparency, we don’t know how many people have been put in jail thanks to facial recognition, but according to the report, the number is growing."