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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Amazon's Rekognition Falsely Matched Members of Congress to Mugshots
Rekognition's face comparison feature was shown by the ACLU to have misidentified members of congress, and particularly members of colors, as other people who have been arrested using a mugshot database built on publicly available arrest photos.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2018-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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