Experts say the technology is slowly getting better at recognizing people wearing face masks.
The report’s authors used 6.2 million photos and applied simulations of various digital mask combinations to these images.
This first study found the error rate of these pre-pandemic algorithms to be between 5% and 50%.
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Numerous studies show that facial recognition is widely reported to misidentify the wrong person and have racial biases.
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