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Perhaps you’ve heard of China’s “Social Credit Score” system, whereby people’s movements and activities are tracked via widely distributed facial recognition systems, and the mined data used to restrict individual access to core goods and services required to function in the post-modern world. It’s China’s way of forcing compliance to the Communist government’s draconian edicts. You may be thinking to yourself, “Oh, but that’s China… that would *never* happen in the US.” And… you’re wrong.
In Washington, the first US state to pass a law regulating facial recognition, it’s legal for government agencies to use facial recognition to deny citizens access to basic rights and services—under one condition. The AI-powered systems must be subject to “meaningful human review.”
Under the law’s definitions, so long as a trained human being has power to overturn the machines’ decisions, governments can use facial recognition systems to deny people access to loans, housing, insurance, education, jobs, healthcare, food, water, or their civil rights. The law leaves private companies’ use of facial recognition unregulated.
Washington’s law was written by a Microsoft employee and passed with strong lobbying support from the Seattle-based software giant. And now, those three words are spawning copies: After state legislators introduced the bill in January 2020, lawmakers in California, Maryland, Idaho, and South Dakota took up similar bills. They have nearly identical language about human review—again under lobbying pressure from Microsoft.
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In a facial recognition bill backed by Microsoft, three words stand between citizens and their civil rights
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