Microsoft Urged To Follow Amazon And IBM: Stop Selling Facial Recognition To Cops After George Floyd’s Death

... [+]After global protests about police violence against the black community, tech companies have stopped supporting cops with technology. Already, Amazon is to stop selling its Rekognition tech to law enforcement and IBM said it too was nixing its surveillance business given the tools have been proven to have a bias against non-white people.

Now it’s Microsoft’s turn, according to two of the biggest human and digital rights bodies in America. Though the tech giant has been vocal on its support for the black community, it hasn’t yet changed how or what it sells to police agencies. “The world Microsoft seems to want is one where police have an invisible but inescapable surveillance presence in our communities,”Matt Cagle, technology and civil liberties attorney at the ACLU. “Where an infrastructure exists to scan your face and identify you as you walk down the street, go to a protest, attend a place of worship, and participate in public life.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

WZorNET De quoi je me mêle ? Ce sont des commerces, qu'il reste dans leurs boutiques ! Ils n'ont pas à ce mêlés de politiques !

I hope Microsoft tells them to STFU

But why?

Wow this is so sad How can a person become so evil Taking advantage of some’s death , making it a public spectacle and using the pain of racism to continue to enforce and promote a stupid agenda I wonder who is Microsoft supporting that don’t want government involved

Didn't amazon and IBM just lose a huge contract to those guys.... It'd lead with a different group on this if you wanna have any credibility that this is not malicious. Good luck everyone!

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