It is largely used to gauge the performance of machine learning algorithms, or to train algorithms that perform specialized computer vision tasks. Blurring the faces affected 243,198 of the images.

Communicating with constituents through social media brings legislators face to face with algorithms and online harassment.

The NIST test challenged algorithms to verify that two photos showed the same face, similar to how a border agent would check passports. At sensitivity settings where Idemia’s algorithms falsely ...