The news: IBM has said the company will stop developing or selling facial recognition software due to concerns the technology is used to promote racism. In a letter to Congress, IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna said the tech giant opposes any technology used “for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms.” He […]
Amazon today declared a halt of the sale of facial recognition to police departments for one year. The news comes one day after George Floyd, a man killed by the Minneapolis Police Department, was laid to rest in Houston, and shortly after IBM pledged to end the sale of or research into facial recognition technology.
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SEATTLE — Amazon said on Wednesday that it was putting a one-year pause on letting the police use its facial recognition tool, in a major sign of the growing concerns that the technology may lead to unfair treatment of African-Americans. The technology giant did not explain its reasoning in its brief blog post about the
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Amazon announced on Wednesday it was implementing a “one-year moratorium” on police use of Rekognition, its facial recognition technology. Lawmakers and civil liberties groups have expressed growing alarm over the tool’s potential for misuse by law enforcement for years, particularly against communities of color. Now, weeks into worldwide protests against police brutality and racism sparked
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Only 32% of consumers feel comfortable about having their face scanned by private companies. This means a significant majority aren’t at ease with companies using facial recognition. Facial Recognition Statistics The stats come from a study by the business app recommendation engine, GetApp. The survey asked 487 US consumers about their views on facial recognition
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The case is the largest cash settlement ever resolving a privacy related lawsuit. Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images Topline: Facebook on Wednesday agreed to pay $550 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of collecting biometric data of users’ faces without permission—the largest ever cash settlement resolving
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For anyone with a Pixel 4 who uses Google Pay to send money to other users, you’ll be happy to learn that Google updated the Google Pay app this week to support the device’ s facial recognition capabilities. Unlike when using Google Pay inside a store to make a purchase, when using it to send
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Big Brother will soon be getting a round in (Image: AP) A bar in central London has become the first in the world to install new AI-powered facial recognition tech to help staff see who’s next in the queue. Developed by British AI firm DataSparQ, the system identifies people waiting at the bar, displays their
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Communication plays an essential role in our lives. Humans started with signs, symbols, and then made progress to a stage, where they began communicating with languages. Later computing and communication technologies came. Machines began communicating with humans and in some cases, with themselves also. The communication created the world of the internet, or as we
from the coastal-elite-cops-now-complaining-about-coastal-elites dept California has become the first state in the US to ban facial recognition tech use by local cops. Matt Cagle has more details on the ACLU-backed law. Building on San Francisco’s first-of-its-kind ban on government face recognition, California this week enacted a landmark law that blocks police from using body cameras
