There are a lot of articles out there about how error prone facial recognition is, and how the error rate increases for darker skinned people. A quick Google search will enlighten you on the issue. Some programs are designed in such a way that they cannot even be calibrated to recognize light skinned and dark skinned people at the same rates. Stupid engineering blunders like that happen when the designers bake their own world view into the product.
An example of this is how women and children were more prone to being killed by airbags in the 1990s, because airbags were mostly designed to protect grown men. So, it's not a deliberately racist thing, but it's just fact that these programs were not written with an emphasis on darker skinned people.
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