Published May 17, 2021 Updated May 17, 2021, 2:50 pm CDT
60 Minutes is being slammed over a story about racial bias in facial recognition software that omitted any mention of three Black women who are pioneers in the field. Featured Video Hide
Sunday night’s episode delved into the cases of two Black men in Detroit, Michigan who were arrested after facial recognition falsely identified them as suspects in criminal cases.
60 Minutes featured interviews with the men, as well as a computer scientist at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and a lawyer at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. Advertisement Hide
While no one contests that the scientist and attorney are doing excellent work in this field,