HP computers are racist

Given the rate of false positives when "cold hits" are used with DNA databases, facial recognition (which is presumably higher entropy than DNA) has the potential to send a lot of innocent people to jail. I also have some concerns of inadvertent "software racism". See for example, this video: [this video] . Obviously facial recognition isn't inherently incapable of recognizing people of different races, but if it's designed and calibrated on subjects of one race, it won't necessarily work well for subjects of different races. The last thing we want is a facial recognition database that thinks e.g. all Arabs look alike. And of course, there are a ton of ways that it can be thwarted easily and inconspicuously, even if it works very well. Are all surveillance cameras going to be fitted with IR filters to ensure that a bright IR LED necklace doesn't blind them? And how hard is it for a criminal to hire a makeup artist?

I'd like to ignore the privacy aspect. I want to discuss the false positive problem. Is the technology reliable to have a low false positive rate? Probably face recognition is good enough to classify the photograph of your friends in Facebook, and the friends of your friends. It has to choose a person in a set of ~100. What happens when someone is falsely identified? Is the suspect released after a ID check or he is moved to the police station to a full check? Can this be a proxy for racial profiling? There was a horror story about a face recognition software that didn't detect someone with black skin. This can have the reverse problem. [this video]