US lawmakers concerned by accuracy of facial recognition
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The technology is being developed by firms including Amazon and Microsoft and increasingly used by law enforcement worldwide.
Some facial recognition technologies misidentify women and people of colour.
Civil liberties and privacy groups have raised concerns about how the data for these programs is being gathered.
"This is some real-life Black Mirror stuff that we're seeing here," said New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a reference to a science-fiction TV show that explores the dark side of technology. US lawmakers are working on a proposal for a bill to limit the use of facial recognition.
