IBM CEO Arvind Krishna called on Congress Monday to enact reforms to advance racial justice and combat systemic racism while announcing the company was getting out of the facial recognition business. CNBC reports: “IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human…
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EFF Challenges Ring’s Spokesperson Shaq To A Discussion About Police Surveillance
Shaq O’Neal was one of the greatest players in basketball history. But as a spokesperson for Amazon’s Ring security cameras, the EFF also calls him the “one man at Ring who might listen to reason,” challenging him to go one-on-one with the EFF’s privacy experts: In just a year and a half, Amazon’s Ring has set up more than 500 partnerships…
One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track members of a largely Muslim minority group. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…