❗️Essex police shut down their live facial recognition cameras because they were catching too many black people

At the same time, they admitted the cameras rarely picked up anyone who wasn't already on the watchlist.

The system was accurate. They just didn't like the results.

A study found the system was "statistically significantly more likely" to correctly identify black people than other ethnicities. Also "more likely" to spot men than women.

So they're now updating the algorithm to detect without 'bias'. 🙃