This is a discussion that is indeed history, and not relevant anymore.
If you look at the images put out at the moment, every type of skin and race is pictured, and well exposed.
- skins getting too red is still a problem- a technical problem ...
If you see the old target in the article - it looks awful... but that might be a analogue to digital technical problem.
This is a fair point. Things have obviously comes a long ways since Shirley. Cameras, for all I know, work equally well or poorly across all skin colors for the most part. Up and coming technologies, however, don't. Google's facial recognition system famously tagged africans as gorillas not too long ago, and, frankly, it takes only a few seconds on google to come up with a bunch of software that was discovered to fail miserably on this racial group or that.
Now, I don't expect that to roll in to Canon's next generation facial-recognition focus/metering algorithms, and therefore collapse when confronted with African people. Why do I expect the best from Canon, rather than the worst? Because the media continues to cover these issues, continues to make sure that the not-African people working on the code continue to have somewhat forward in their minds "right, right, test on black people, don't forget" rather than gradually forgetting about that continent in the rush to deliver features.
Canon knows that there's likely to be a ****storm if their next generation cameras can't successfully eye-focus, or meter, when confronted with dark-skinned people. If they didn't know this, they might very well drop the ball.