“Facial Recognition Creates Risks for Trans Individuals, Others”, 16 July 2021.

As facial recognition technology becomes more commonly used by government agencies, some experts have raised concerns about the outsized potential for adverse impacts for certain individuals.

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In 2020, a coalition of organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) — came together to ask the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board in a letter to urge government to stop its use of facial recognition technology.

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[F]acial recognition technology often predicts gender incorrectly because it is using assumptions about things like facial structure. When it comes to transgender people...it is frequently wrong.

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A potential risk with the inaccuracy of this technology is that it can out people by connecting them with identity documents with the name or sex they were assigned at birth.

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A person could be at risk of facing discrimination or violence when they are outed..