‘HP computers are racist’
p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- The world’s largest computer maker is learning a lesson from one of its customers, says Bay Area.
“HP has new software that allows its PC webcams to track faces,” it says, going on:
“That means when you’re talking to your friends and family across the miles, you can move about the frame and the camera will follow you.
“Unless you’re black, it seems.
“A customer named Desi and his coworker, Wanda, demonstrated the flaw and posted the video on YouTube. It’s pretty funny, but a slap in the face for company.”
But what else is new?
Gargle may also be practising racial discrimination on its Google Street View, p2pnet revealed exclusively last month.
“p2pnet reader Marc spent hours surfing Street View and p2pnet ran the results in what’s probably the only detailed online coverage of easily visible Street View images,” we said, going on >>>
However, that’s not all he found.
Said Eric in a Reader’s Write to our latest post on Google’s apparent intransigence, “I doubt those three guys sitting on the wall were having an abortion. 
”
He was referring to one of the Google Street View pix showing an abortion clinic in Switzerland identified by Marc and which we’d miniaturised for a 32-item montage. However, as we pointed out, “even at these very considerably reduced sizes, some of the people might still be recognizable”. So we obscured them in red.
Marc told Eric >>>
Nope, they were just sitting there about 1 block away from the abortion clinic. Sitting in front of their slum homes across the street.
What *is* significant is that most black people are not blurred at all. Most every black person I came across is in the same unblurred state.
A few things that I noticed that causes the blur to *not* kick in:
1. If you are non-white
2. If you wear shades or glasses
3. If you have a hat on (ie baseball cap)
From all the time I spent looking into this, the above 3 conditions are true, regardless of what anyone, or thing, has to say.
Check it out. You will also find this to be true.
“The above 3 conditions hold true for gargle Swiss and boogle Canada (I only looked at these two in depth for many, many, hours),” Marc pointed out.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Bay Area - HP’s Software Doesn’t Care About Black People, December 21, 2009
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December 21st, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Hey HP!…
Can you say “preliminary testing”?!!
Hmmm, guess not.
December 21st, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Well, that is interesting! My daughter has an HP lappy, it doesnt track her movement (btw,we are not black)
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 am
Are you brown??