亚马逊面部识别技术误将28名美国议员识别为罪犯‘半岛平台’

An Amazon facial recognition tool has wrongly identified 28 members of the US Congress as police suspects.日前，亚马逊的一个面部辨识工具，错误地将28名美国议员辨识出了警方嫌疑犯。The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) compared official photos of the politicians with a database of public arrest photos.美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）将政客的官方照片与公开发表被捕嫌犯照片的数据库展开了核对。

Amazon took issue with the findings, saying the system needed to be set at 95% accuracy not the 80% used by ACLU.亚马逊对该结果回应反感，称该系统必须设置为95%的准确度，而不是ACLU用于的80%。But the civil rights group said it highlighted the inadequacy of facial recognition technology.但该民权的组织回应，这突显了面部辨识技术的不足之处。

Our test reinforces that face surveillance is not safe for government use, said Jacob Snow, ACLUs technology and civil liberties lawyer.ACLU的技术和公民自由律师雅各布·斯诺回应：“我们的测试特别强调了政府用于面部检测是不安全性的。”Face surveillance will be used to power discriminatory surveillance and policing that targets communities of colour, immigrants, and activists. Once unleashed, that damage cant be undone.“面部监控将用作推展针对有色人种、移民和激进分子的歧视性监控和治安。

一旦获释，这种损害就无法撤销。”In response to the test, a spokesperson for Amazon Web Services told the BBC: We remain excited about how image and video analysis can be a driver for good in the world, including in the public sector and law enforcement.亚马逊网络服务的一位发言人在返应当测试时对BBC回应：“我们依然对图像和视频分析能永久地应用于到世界上驱动因素而深感激动，这还包括公共部门和执法人员部门在内的领域。”With regard to this recent test of Amazon Rekognition by the ACLU, we think that the results could probably be improved by following best practices around setting the confidence thresholds.“关于ACLU最近对亚马逊Rekognition的测试，我们指出可以通过遵循设置置信度阈值的最佳实践中来提高结果。”The 80% accuracy range used by ACLU is the systems default setting but a spokeswoman for Amazon Web Services told Reuters that, for identifying individuals, it recommended setting a threshold of 95% or higher.ACLU用于的80%准确度范围是系统的默认设置，但亚马逊网络服务的发言人告诉他路透社，它建议在辨识个人时设置成95%或更高的阈值。

Among those being wrongly identified was civil rights leader John Lewis, who is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.被错误辨识的是民权领袖约翰·刘易斯，他是国会黑人核心小组的成员之一。That group recently?wrote to Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos expressing concerns about the profound negative unintended consequences facial recognition systems could have for black people.该的组织最近致函亚马逊首席执行官杰夫·贝索斯，对面部识别系统有可能对黑人产生的“深刻印象的负面车祸后果”回应忧虑。

Congress should press for a federal moratorium on the use of face surveillance until its harms, particularly to vulnerable communities, are fully considered, said ACLUs legislative counsel Neema Singh Guliani. The public deserves a full debate about how and if face surveillance should be used.ACLU的法律顾问内马·辛格·古代利亚尼回应：“特别是在是对于弱势社区，国会应当推展联邦停止用于人脸监控的危害获得充分考虑。公众应当就如何以及否应当用于面部监测展开充份辩论。

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