Flickr's auto-tagging feature is labeling black people ... The purpose was to make images more searchable in the system. For example, a black and white photo of London's Tower Bridge was ...

Searching for “black man” or “black woman,” for example, only returned pictures of people in black and white, sorted by ... “Image labeling technology is still early and unfortunately ...

An engineer who became the public face of the clean-up operation said the label ... “black man,” “black woman,” or “black person,” caused Google’s system to return black-and-white ...