The Misguided Attempts to Democratize Facial Recognition

Mack DeGeurin
7 min readMar 18, 2021
Image by Mack Lagoy

A little over a month ago, the United States collectively tuned in to an event without comparison. A crowd of hundreds, some brandishing signs and others adorned with face paint and covered in animal pelts marched their way toward the United States capitol building.

You know the rest of the story. You’re probably aware some of these marchers made their way past…

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Mack DeGeurin

Texas expat, freelance journalist. Work has been featured in New York Magazine, Motherboard and Medium. I’m on Twitter @mackdegeurin