'We won't sell facial recognition services for the purposes of mass surveillance anywhere in the world': Microsoft president Brad Smith
"We won't sell facial recognition services for the purposes of mass surveillance anywhere in the world.”
"We won't sell facial recognition services for the purposes of mass surveillance anywhere in the world.”
Facebook is opening up its face recognition technology to all users with an option to opt out, the social media company said on Tuesday, as it discontinued a related feature called "Tag Suggestions."
Amazon.com said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial recognition service on Wednesday, just as members of Congress indicated there was bipartisan support to one day regulate the technology.
San Francisco officials voted 8 to 1 to ban the purchase and use of facial recognition technology by city personnel, in a move to regulate tools that local Silicon Valley companies helped develop.
Microsoft concluded it would lead to innocent women and minorities being disproportionately held for questioning because the artificial intelligence has been trained on mostly white and male pictures.