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On a Thursday afternoon in January, Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was in his office at an automotive supply company when he got a call from the Detroit Police Department telling him to come to the station to be arrested. He thought at first that it was a prank.An hour later, when…

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing said on Wednesday it would “add legal means” and research other ways to thwart misuse after its software was involved in the first known wrongful arrest based on the technology in the United States.FILE PHOTO: Visitors check their phones behind…

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing said on Wednesday it would “add legal means” and research other ways to thwart misuse after its software was involved in the first known wrongful arrest based on the technology in the United States.FILE PHOTO: Visitors check their phones behind…

Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft and IBM all recently agreed to halt sales of their respective facial-recognition technologies to US law enforcement agencies during the second week of June 2020, despite privacy campaigners raising concerns about its use for several years. But why now?  In an open letter to the US…

RISKS Forum mailing list archives Risks Digest 31.98 From: RISKS List Owner Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:30:00 PDTRISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 12 June 2020 Volume 31 : Issue 98 ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks) Peter G. Neumann, founder and still moderator…

But on Wednesday, June 10, Amazon shocked civil rights activists and researchers when it announced that it would place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition. The move followed IBM’s decision to discontinue its general-purpose face recognition system. The next day, Microsoft announced that it would stop selling its…

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Amazon announced Wednesday it’s implementing a year-long moratorium on law enforcement use of “Rekognition,” its facial recognition technology. The decision comes amid a nationwide focus on police powers and actions following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, by a white officer in Minneapolis. “We’ve advocated…

The news: IBM has said the company will stop developing or selling facial recognition software due to concerns the technology is used to promote racism. In a letter to Congress, IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna said the tech giant opposes any technology used “for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic…

Like any other tool such as a hammer or a knife, technology can be used not only for good but also for harm. Facial recognition, in particular, is often promoted as a convenient security measure but it can also be misused and abused for things like mass surveillance or racial…