Facial Recognition

A Black student at the University of Texas at Arlington sued over a monitoring program for remote learning, claiming he was wrongfully found guilty of cheating on an exam and suspended for a year because the program’s facial detection technology is inaccurate when identifying individuals with darker skin.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Black student at the University of Texas at Arlington sued over a monitoring program for remote learning, claiming he was wrongfully found guilty of cheating on an exam and suspended for a year because the program’s facial detection technology is inaccurate when identifying individuals with darker skin.

Categories / Civil Rights, Education

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