I Didn’t Realize The Danger of Facial Recognition Tech Until I Used It

New technology re-creates old problem

Manny Otiko
OneZero
Published in
4 min readSep 4, 2021

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Any decent defense attorney will tell you never to participate in a police lineup. Even though the police claim that you’re helping them identify a suspect, a Black person in a police lineup can be implicated in a crime he didn’t commit. There is an old joke about white people not…

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Manny Otiko
OneZero

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.