The Boston City Council today voted unanimously to ban facial recognition, making Boston the largest city in the country to ban the technology since San Francisco passed the first citywide ban in May 2019. Nearby Somerville, Massachusetts passed a facial recognition ban roughly a year ago as well. The vote in Boston comes the same […]
Boston bans facial recognition due to concern about racial bias Read More »
“We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,” the company wrote. “We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if
Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year Read More »
This collection of social media marketing and new hire announcements is a compilation of the past week’s briefs from our daily Marketing Land newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get more news like this delivered to your inbox every morning. Twitter reports an uptick in data requests. Between January and June of 2019, Twitter received
California lawmakers today passed a bill placing a three-year state-wide moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies. AB 1215, The Body Camera Accountability Act, was introduced earlier this year by assemblymember Phil Tang, a Democrat. Both San Francisco and Oakland previously passed similar bills preventing the use of facial recognition
TikTok, the social video app owned by China’s ByteDance, has banned political advertising, claiming that it doesn’t match with the more jovial experience of the platform. The company’s vice-president of global business solutions, Blake Chandlee, who recently joined the company from Facebook, said in a blog post on Friday (4 October) that the nature of
California has the toughest gun laws of any state, particularly when it comes to the types of weapons used in a spate of recent mass shootings. EBay, the state’s biggest e-commerce company, would like to give the impression it takes a similarly hard-line stance on them. The auction site prohibits sellers on its marketplace from
EBay bans assault rifle parts. Here’s how sellers get around it Read More »
St. Edward Catholic School in Nashville banned J.K. Rowling’s wildly popular “Harry Potter” stories. The seven-book fantasy series chronicling the magical adventures of young witches and wizards were removed from the school library due to their content. “These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever
Catholic School Bans ‘Harry Potter’ Books Because Spells Read More »
In addition to the streets, the ongoing political battle about the future of Hong Kong is being waged in social media channels. And overnight, both Twitter and Facebook announced actions to stem the “inauthentic use” of their platforms for “nefarious tactics”. Both platforms suspended or deleted accounts – 936 in Twitter’s case, five in Facebook’s.
Twitter bans state media ads over ‘nefarious’ HK social media tactics Read More »
Twitter has banned prominent anti-Trump personalities Brian and Ed Krassenstein over their use of fake accounts and purchased interactions. Source link
Twitter Permanently Bans Prominent Political Commentators Over Use of Fake Accounts Read More »
Google has sported a rocky relationship with China for more than 10 years. While the company’s on again, off again approach to the Internet’s largest ‘untapped’ market has always been tempestuous, recent developments suggest the tech giant may be yielding to its own growth imperative and bending to the government’s demands once more. For more
Google bans adverts for anti-censorship sites in China Read More »
