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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday June 09 2020, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the tides-are-turning dept.

IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology:

IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Reps. Karen Bass (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).

"IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any [facial recognition] technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and Principles of Trust and Transparency," Krishna said in the letter. "We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies."


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @06:45PM (#1005315)

    IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software

    So are you trying to say that you will make special purpose facial recognition software? Perhaps that purpose is hinted at by the second quote, or maybe this is all what someone wants me to think and I need to go RTFA instead of the carefully selected quotes...

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