This week, Google announced its new Pixel 4 phone. One of the features it touted was Face Unlock, which uses facial recognition to unlock the phone. But the advancement came with a price - for black people.

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Links to resources discussed: 

From the New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-google-darker-skin-tones-facial-recognition-pixel-20191002-5vxpgowknffnvbmy5eg7epsf34-story.html

From The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/8934804/google-pixel-4-face-scanning-data-collection

Ruha Benjamin

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Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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