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Are You Feeding a Powerful Facial Recognition Algorithm?

This algorithm isn't looking for your face only in the photos you've posted.

Publish Date: 4/30/21Topic: Body + BrainBody & BrainNova

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By Emily Zendt

Facial recognition technology has great potential to help law enforcement identify suspects. But collecting and storing data from online photos has raised concern among critics.

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