SOCIAL MEDIA BAN TRIAL DATA REVEALS BIAS IN AGE CHECKING SOFTWARE: JUST HOW INACCURATE IS IT?
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✍️ A Guardian analysis of age assurance technology trial data shows that the impact of introducing age checks will fall hardest on already-marginalised groups, with Indigenous and south-east Asian people more likely to be miscategorised.
👉 Age estimation software was less accurate for people with Indigenous or south-east Asian backgrounds 👉 Age-verification software was unreliable for Indigenous people 👉 The trial's methodology was questioned, with concerns raised about the accuracy of the age verification software and the exclusion of certain results 👉 The report showed that age estimation systems had a higher error rate on average for people with darker skin 👉 The trial did not publish a detailed analysis of age estimation accuracy by gender
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