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IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

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: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 10 2020, @12:19AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @12:19AM (#1005548) Journal

    Are you off your meds again or what? Jesus fuck, "vaccines marked 666?"

    We. Have. Been. Over. This. Before. "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a man, and the number is sixhundred-threescore-and-six." Neron Qaisar in Gematria. Revelation was speaking of events that took place over 1900 years ago. It does not apply to the current time period.

    Stop twisting the plain meaning of the text with your bizarre eisegesis. The book itself states that "..whoever addeth aught to it, the plagues of this book shall be added to him." Unless you have a serious hankering for some man-sized scorpions you'd better cut that shit out PDQ...

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:17AM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:17AM (#1005726) Journal

    I guess you don't read replies, which makes this one redundant.

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