Countries must do more to combat racial profiling, UN rights experts said Thursday, warning that artificial intelligence programmes like facial recognition and predictive policing risked reinforcing the harmful practice.
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Pictured: Working group of Experts on People of African Descent of the United Nations member Verene Shepherd. According to Shepherd, ""Historical arrest data about a neighbourhood may reflect racially biased policing practices", which would then thereby cause the faulty application of technology and a continued culture of racist practices. PHOTO: AFP
2020-11-29 11:56:19
Countries must do more to combat racial profiling, UN rights experts said Thursday, warning that artificial intelligence programmes like facial recognition and predictive policing risked reinforcing the harmful practice.
Racial profiling is not new but the technologies once seen as tools for bringing more objectivity and fairness to policing appear in many places to be making the problem worse.
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