Google has funded a facial recognition project that’s targeting people of color with dubious tactics, hiring temps go out to collect face scans from a variety of people on the street using $5 gift cards as incentive. Teams were dispatched to target homeless people in Atlanta, unsuspecting students on college campuses around the U.S. and attendees of the BET Awards festivities in Los Angeles, among other places.

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Ginger Adams Otis, Nancy Dillon