IBM, Amazon Agree to Step Back From Face Recognition. Where Is Microsoft?
Publication/Creation Date
June 10 2020Description
"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."Keywords
Surveillance,
Privacy,
Ethics,
Police,
Government,
Violence,
Activism,
Racism,
Human Rights,
Law,
Racial JusticeSource
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/ibm-amazon-end-and-pause-fr-programs-where-microsoft
Date archived
June 11 2020Last edited
October 10 2020How to cite this entry
Matthew Guariglia . (June 10 2020). "IBM, Amazon Agree to Step Back From Face Recognition. Where Is Microsoft?". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Fabric of Digital Life.
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