The tech industry may be ready to defund facial recognition

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

IBM faced up to it.

The tech company is no longer developing facial-recognition software, CEO Arvind Krishna told U.S. lawmakers in a letter Monday. Krishna called for a “national dialogue” on how — or even whether — police should be allowed to use face-scanning technologies.

IBM and other tech companies had been criticized for racial bias in their facial-recognition software, something they pledged to fix. But IBM is taking an intriguing stance: that the social ills of highly effective facial-recognition software deployed on a massive scale, along with mass surveillance or crowdsourced imagery, are just too great. Such technology, Krishna’s move suggests, is inherently biased against the disadvantaged. Instead of being too big to fail, it’s too bad to fix.

There are always those who are willing to test the boundaries of what technology can do and what society will allow, like Clearview AI, the facial-recognition startup whose transgressive use of images posted on social media and other websites has already drawn privacy lawsuits.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-tech-industry-may-be-ready-to-defund-facial-recognition/ar-BB15i380

[NightWatcher]

1. Just keep wearing your masks, sunglasses, and ball caps.

They are hating not being able to arrest protestors by reviewing video, using facial rec.

Embrace the anonymity that comes from the masks.

[TeamPooka]

4. yup

[fierywoman]

2. What about all the facial recognition tech China already has and uses?

[TeamPooka]

3. My $2 face mask has destroyed their trillion dollar facial recognition system. Im keeping it forever