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“Black Desi” and his colleague “White Wanda” uploaded a video on youtube showing how cameras installed in HP laptops cannot detect black faces. See video below.

Via BBC:
When Wanda, a white woman, is in front of the screen, the camera zooms to her face and moves as she moves. But when Desi, a black man, does the same, the camera does not respond by tracking him.

The clip is light-hearted in tone but is titled “HP computers are racist”. “HP has been informed of a potential issue with the facial-tracking software included on some of its systems, which appears to occur when insufficient foreground lighting is available,” an HP spokesman told BBC News. “We take this seriously and are looking into it with our partners.”

Desi notes he just bought a HP computer for himself partly to use its webcam to chat with his family.

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