{"id":110117,"date":"2020-11-11T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-coded-bias-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:06:00","slug":"watch-coded-bias-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-coded-bias-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Coded Bias with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4073da199b8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4073da199b8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-coded-bias-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Coded_Bias_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Coded Bias Online&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-coded-bias-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Nick_Allen\" >Nick Allen<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-coded-bias-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Coded_Bias_2020\" >Coded Bias (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Coded_Bias_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Coded Bias Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>Shalini Kantayya\u2019s \u201cCoded Bias\u201d effectively brings to light a modern civil rights issue that can be proven with data\u2014the bias within facial recognition programs, particularly against those who are not like the white men who originally formed\u00a0such <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>. (Such powerful data collecting and distributing technology is used\u00a0in America by the likes of\u00a0Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.) But Kantayya\u2019s doc expands this even further, discussing the invasiveness of this technology around the world, and the harm and misinformation it can lead to for people of color in America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>The hero of this documentary is Joy Buolamwini, the Ghanian-American founder of the Algorithmic Justice League. She starts &#8220;Coded Bias&#8221;\u00a0by showing a massive discovery that launched dozens of articles, and lead to her speaking at Congress, inspiring activism against this technology. As she sits in her office at MIT, she tells of how she discovered this facial recognition problem, in which the AI did not recognize her face. But when she put on a white mask, it did.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The importance of this is enormous, and director Kantayya spends a fleet 85 minutes detailing why, without losing focus. As facial recognition technology becomes such a global problem, it comes with this harmful bias against people of color, informed by conscious or unconscious biases from those who created\u00a0such algorithms. It\u2019s not uncommon for this technology to correctly identify a white face, but then to give the wrong information about someone of darker complexion. On top of that, the talking heads in this documentary (mostly women) express how the algorithms themselves are a type of black box, in which we don\u2019t exactly know what they&#8217;re thinking, aside from the copious data they contain. We also don&#8217;t know what these black boxes are entirely capable of.\u00a0<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One might expect a documentary about data and algorithms to run a bit dry, but \u201cCoded Bias\u201d defies that by having a lot on its mind and by\u00a0being quick on its feet, hopping all over the country, and the world. As the film builds a damning\u00a0case against these algorithms and facial recognition, it takes us to Houston, where an award-winning teacher had this job threatened by faulty job-vetting algorithms, and to Brooklyn, where an apartment building has become closely monitored by facial recognition. A focus is also given to how China uses heavily surveillance to control its citizens and their behaviors; in the United States, we might think we&#8217;re distant from such a society, but it&#8217;s already here.\u00a0The impressive pacing in this movie is directly correlated to its ideas: it has\u00a0many of them, and many vivid examples of how the lack of a human\u2019s input has affected others.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It also helps that &#8220;Coded Bias&#8221; keeps things in the present, which comes from its focus on documenting activism. In London, Kantayya focuses on members of the Big Brother Watch, a type of surveillance watchdog group that takes their name from\u00a0George Orwell\u2019s <em>1984<\/em>. But as the documentary shows in a few gripping scenes, they are a vital force, to both hold police accountable when they try to intimidate a young Black boy\u00a0on the streets who was noted by surveillance,\u00a0and to then inform that very suspect about why they were targeted. Activism goes side-by-side with the many sobering details of the film, and it gives the proceedings an invigorating sense that&#8217;s mightily aware, but hopeful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Throughout, \u201cCoded Bias\u201d constantly feels like it&#8217;s not recounting a saga that\u2019s like grounded <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>-fiction, it\u2019s making us aware that we&#8217;re\u00a0square in the middle of one. This attention to the timeline makes the exchange of ideas\u00a0all the more powerful, seeing how these women have inspired each other.\u00a0It\u2019s also gratifying when the movie shows the success that has come to the\u00a0resistance inspired by\u00a0the work of\u00a0Buolamwini and other brilliant women. As it shows the faults in such technology advancements, &#8220;Coded Bias&#8221; exemplifies the power of free will, which includes our right to learn about something, and the right\u00a0to\u00a0shut it down.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Now playing in select virtual cinemas.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Allen\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/nick-allen\/featured_NickAllen.jpg\" title=\"Nick Allen\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nick_Allen\"><\/span>Nick Allen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Nick Allen is an Assistant Editor at RogerEbert.com and is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coded Bias movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/assets\/missing\/missing-poster-large-3cefff1fdbf9ba55cbbd8b11bb3faca47b0eed12fa2b9d733f93f0414a2e4059.png\" title=\"Coded Bias movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Coded_Bias_2020\"><\/span> Coded Bias (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> 90 minutes <meta content=\"PT90M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a>category<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/coded-bias-movie-review-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Watch Coded Bias Online&#8221; Shalini Kantayya\u2019s \u201cCoded Bias\u201d effectively brings to light a modern civil rights issue that can be proven with data\u2014the bias within facial recognition programs, particularly against those who are not like the white men who originally formed\u00a0such technology. 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