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men: Some Amazon investors have also asked the company to stop out of fear that it makes Amazon vulnerable to lawsuits. ; The researchers said that in their tests, Amazon's technology labeled darker-skinned women as men 31 percent of the time, according to The Japan Times. Lighter-skinned women were misidentified 7 percent of the time. Privacy and civil rights advocates have called on Amazon to stop marketing its Rekognition service because of worries about discrimination against minorities. Darker-skinned men had a 1 percent error rate, while lighter-skinned men had none. The new study, released late Thursday, warns of the potential of abuse and threats to privacy and civil liberties from facial-detection technology. Artificial intelligence can mimic the biases of their human creators as they make their way into everyday life. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.