Microsoft joins Amazon and IBM to stop selling face recognition technology to police. YahooFinance
- Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would await federal regulation before selling facial recognition technology to police, making it the latest big firm to back away from the business following protests against law enforcement brutality and bias.
"We do not sell our facial recognition technology to U.S. police departments today, and until there is a strong national law grounded in human rights, we will not sell this technology to police," the company said. The Washington Post first reported the news. Matt Cagle, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said,"When even the makers of face recognition refuse to sell this surveillance technology because it is so dangerous, lawmakers can no longer deny the threats to our rights and liberties."Facial-recognition vendors working with police have included Idemia and DataWorks Plus.
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