IBM, Amazon Agree to Step Back From Face Recognition. Where Is Microsoft?
Publication Title
Electronic Frontier FoundationPublication/Creation Date
June 10 2020Creators/Contributors
Matthew Guariglia (creator)Arvind Krishna (contributor)
IBM (contributor)
Amazon, Inc. (contributor)
Microsoft (contributor)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (contributor)
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Magazine ArticlePersuasive Intent
InformationDiscursive Type
Responses To InventionsDescription
"Activism is working. Both on the streets as people protest to end racist and violent policing, and among civil liberties organizations who have been fighting the government’s use of harmful face surveillance technology. This week two major vendors of face surveillance technology announced that in light of recent protests against police brutality and racial injustice, they would be phasing out or pausing their sale of this technology to police."HCI Platform
AmbientRelation to Body
AroundRelated Body Part
FaceKeywords
Surveillance, Privacy, Ethics, Police, Government, Violence, Activism, Racism, Human Rights, Law, Racial JusticeSource
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