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Canadian Police's Release of Suspect's AI-Generated Facial Photo Reportedly Reinforced Racial Profiling
The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) in Canada released a facial image of a Black male suspect generated by an algorithm using DNA phenotyping, which was denounced by the local community as racial profiling.
- Date it happened
- 2022-10-04
- Organisation involved
- Edmonton Police Service
- Product, system or model
- Using DNA evidence, Parabon produces trait predictions for the person of interest. Individual predictions are made for the person's ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, and face sha
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