https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7yd/google-is-investigating-why-it-trained-facial-recognition-on-dark-skinned-homeless-people

Yesterday, the New York Daily News reported that Google was funding a facial recognition project using “dubious tactics” to target “darker skin people.” Former Workers who collected the facial scans told Daily News that teams deceptively targeted homeless people in Atlanta, college students across the U.S., attendees of the BET Awards in Los Angeles, and other places—lying to them about the nature of their participation in a project to scan and record their faces.

The project was first reported in July 2019 by ZDNet and Android Police, which reported that Google employees were offering $5 gift cards to people on the street in exchange for a facial scan. Several anonymous sources have since spoken to Daily News, shedding light on a host of “questionable and misleading methods” driving the project.