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Jimmy Gomez: “False positives are not a big deal because for the people who are falsely identified... it is a big deal to them.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
False positives are not a big deal because for the people who are falsely identified... it is a big deal to them.
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Jimmy Gomez
Democratic · California

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Gomez highlights the serious consequences of false positives in facial recognition technology.

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