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Outrage over police brutality has finally convinced Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM to rule out selling facial recognition tech to law enforcement. Here's what's going on.

Without a legal framework, other companies could rush in to fill the gap.

Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer voiced similar concerns that less well-known companies could start touting facial recognition to police. She added: "In my opinion, this is the moment when US and EU governments must take technology regulation seriously and pass comprehensive legislation: failure to do so is nothing less than giving permission for an unchecked assault on human rights."

MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini has been one of the key activists pressuring tech companies to stop selling facial recognition software to police."Scholars and activists like Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, and Deb Raji are not alone in their push for fairness and accountability in technology that is deployed at scale.

"I also call on all companies that substantially profit from AI — including IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Apple— to commit at least $1 million each towards advancing racial justice in the tech industry."

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I'm sorry I'm not ok with this. They shouldn't get to choose their customers in this country. We would t be ok if they didnt want to sell to people in large cities because it could be used in crime. This is a slippery slope.

what gulag is this?

Major 🙏🏾

Too late now. The singularity already happened.

Good, but we didn’t they listen to the objections sooner?

IBM should have already known given their past technology was used by the Nazis to track and catalogue minorities in camps. Unlike other companies it's not their first time in that particular rodeo

They shouldn’t be fucking doing it anyway. Who voted for this shit?

don't do it guys! good. work. De-fund the police.

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