The Algorithmic Justice League – MIT MEDIA LAB – Medium

What does a student coding in a white mask have in common with a New Zealand man struggling with a passport photo? Both individuals found themselves on the wrong side of computational decisions. The man of Asian descent erroneously had his eyes registered as closed by facial recognition software that analyzed his photo during an interaction with an automated passport renewal system. In my case, I wore a mask because my bare face was not consistently detected by facial recognition software. We both experienced exclusion from seemingly neutral machines programmed with algorithms -codified processes.