So while Amazon was right that my studies had looked at gender classification and not facial verification or facial identification, I was correct in my assertion that the bias observed in my studies was cause for concern in other areas, given shared technical approaches used with a whole range of facial recognition technologies. Unlike Microsoft, Amazon did not submit its systems to be tested for this landmark study in 2019. By the time NIST’s vindication came in December, my illusion of safety had already dissolved. I had assumed basing my work at an academic institution like MIT would offer
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