Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition
In July, Google admitted it has employees pounding the pavement in a variety of US cities, looking for people willing to sell their facial data for a $5 gift certificate to help improve the Pixel 4's face unlock system. But the New York Daily News reports that a Google contractor may be using some questionable methods to get those facial scans, including targeting groups of homeless people and tricking college students who didn't know they were being recorded.
According to several sources who allegedly worked on the project, a contracting agency named Randstad sent teams to Atlanta explicitly to target homeless people and those with dark skin, often without saying they were working for Google, and without letting on that they were actually recording people's faces.
Google wasn't necessarily aware that Randstad was going after homeless people, but a Google manager reportedly did instruct the group to target people with darker skin, one source told the Daily News.
Also at Android Central.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday October 04 2019, @10:58AM (1 child)
Wow, haven't heard that word since the 1970's era of Blaxploitation films.
Three the Hard Way, Boss Nigger, Abby, Penitentiary, Uptown Saturday Night, Five on the Black Hand Side, Cooley High, Cornbread, Earl and Me, Sparkle, these films were everywhere during the 70's.
And they were publicly called Blaxploitation (or Blaxpo) films. They never truly went away, just the moniker.
Also the era that saw Patti Smiths song Rock and Roll Nigger, Randy Newman's We're Rednecks (keeping the niggers down), David Allen Coe's If That Ain't Country (workin' like a nigger) etcetera. The 70's were a weird, confused time of Watergate, race relations, bell bottom jeans, leisure suits with huge collars, big Afro's, ant-war protests, NORML, smoke-ins and sit-ins, emerging technologies and pay phones. It gave us heavy metal and disco. Underpowered muscle cars and unleaded gas.
Not unlike today.....but without the corrosive influence of social media.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday October 04 2019, @04:29PM
Personally I'm pro ant-war, those Fire Ants just can't die fast enough.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"