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Researcher discusses facts related to media narratives about facial recognition ‘bias’
Yevgeniy Sirotin, PhD, Senior Principal Scientist and Manager at SAIC, says only meticulous research of biometric systems performed by third-parties through peer review can deliver factual information about facial recognition performance, or other biometric technologies.. Read the whole story here.

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