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| Microsoft announces refusal to sell face recognition technology to the police |
Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not sell face recognition technology to the police until federal law regulates technology.
"We do not sell facial recognition technology to the US police today unless there is a strong national human rights law, we will not sell technology to the police," the technology giant said in a statement.
Microsoft announced one year after Amazon announced that it would not make facial recognition software available to the police. On that day, it ended a long-running campaign in which many people protested against chaos against whites. Brutal application of the law.
The death of George Floyd - the black man who died in police custody last month - has raised fears that the faces of the protesters may be misidentified.
(Matt Kagel) - A lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union said: "If a face recognition manufacturer refuses to sell this surveillance technology due to its risk, lawmakers will not be able to deny the threat to our rights and rights." Our freedom. At one point, the United States Congress examined the possibility of regulating technology for months.
On Monday, IBM said it would not provide facial analysis or facial recognition software in a letter to Congress, and called for further measures to monitor justice and racial equality.