As it appeals to Congress to stop law enforcement from using facial recognition technology, the American Civil Liberties Union tested out Amazon’s tool Rekognition with images of the members of the 115th Congress themselves.
The result: It incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with people in mugshots.
In a release, the ACLU said it built a database and a search tool with 25,000 publicly available arrest photos and then used the default match settings in Rekognition to search against public photos of every U.S.
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