Facial Recognition Backlash Grows

IBM, Amazon and Microsoft saw the handwriting on the wall about the biases built into facial recognition systems, as they recently bailed out of the market segment. The potential groundswell of hatred could severely damage their reputation and profit. ⁃ TN EditorWhen the American Civil Liberties Union ran a test of Amazon.com Inc.’s facial recognition technology, the software falsely matched 28 members of Congress, many of them minorities, with mugshots of arrested people from police