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| IBM wants the US to introduce new export controls for facial recognition systems |
IBM said Friday that the US Department of Commerce is expected to introduce new controls to restrict the export of facial recognition systems to law enforcement systems that could be used to violate human rights.
The company said in a statement: The United States should impose new restrictions on exports on "the types of facial recognition systems most likely to be used in large-scale surveillance systems, in racial profiling, or in racial profiling." Other human rights violations. "
Last July, the Commerce Department consulted with the public to approve new export licensing requirements for facial recognition software and other biometric systems used for monitoring. Comments should be sent before September 15th.
Christopher Padilla, IBM's vice president of government and regulatory affairs, told Reuters that the US government should focus on systems that allow opponents to choose from among a crowd or conduct widespread surveillance rather than letting users unlock the iPhone's facial recognition system. Or login. Machine.
IBM said that the commercial division should "control the export of high-resolution cameras that are used to collect data and export the software algorithms used to analyze that data and match them with the image database." He stressed that someone should be restrained. Some foreign governments have access to large computer components. An integrated facial recognition system must be established.
The company's written comments did not specify the government, but said instead: "Control over the most powerful types of facial recognition technologies should focus on countries with a history of human rights violations."
In its July issue, the Ministry of Commerce said that China "deployed facial recognition technology in Xinjiang which has implemented widespread repression, arbitrary detention, and high-tech surveillance against Uyghurs". Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities. "
The ministry added dozens of Chinese companies and companies to the economic blacklist and allegedly violated human rights related to China's treatment of Uyghurs, including Hikvision video surveillance and SenseTime Group, a pioneer in facial recognition and Megvii technology.
IBM said the commercial division should also restrict access to online image databases that could be used to train facial recognition systems.
In June last year, IBM announced to the US Congress that it would stop providing facial recognition software and refuse to use the technology for large-scale surveillance and ethnic analysis. The company has also called for new federal regulations to hold police accountable for wrongdoing.