NB: That will involve handing over your selfies and other personal info to AI outfits to experiment with
Folks in the US are encouraged to sign up for the study and hand over their personal identifiable information – including snaps of their face – to check the abilities of six suppliers' facial-recognition-based authentication systems. It's hoped that one day this kind of tech will be built into government websites, allowing people to log in using their faces.
"This is an important study and initiative to test and validate facial recognition and matching algorithms and technology to identify barriers across demographic lines," GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Sunny Hashmi."The results will not only inform government strategy moving forward, but will also lower barriers for more Americans when they interact with their government digitally."The GSA is asking for anyone with a US-government-issued ID, social security number, email address, and mobile phone plan in their name to participate.
That data trove will be shared with security-vetted suppliers for processing and analysis, and deleted from their servers within 24 hours, we're promised. However, the GSA also notes in its FAQ that it will keep that data for another six years, presumably in one of thoseIt's one thing to probe facial-recognition AI tech for the biases that experts and academics have been warning about – that women and people of color tend to be misidentified, primarily.
The GSA no doubt wants to home in on authentication products that do not suffer bias and accuracy problems, although a note in the official announcement indicates a separate brouhaha may be smoothed over by the study.
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