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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…

IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris…

Facial recognition tech has issues. IBM says enough's enough. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images IBM announced Monday that it's withdrawing from the general-purpose facial recognition market, saying it worries that the technology is being used to promote discrimination and racial injustice."IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including…

Josh Peter USA TODAYPublished 1:06 AM EDT Jun 6, 2020Arsonists, looters and rioters who think they evaded U.S. law enforcement this past week because they wore face masks might be in for a surprise.Not long after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended wearing cloth face coverings to slow…

It’s too soon to know what surveillance tools police departments across the country have been using to identify protesters and looters in the past week. But we know there are a lot of them, from widespread camera technology and license plate readers to drones. Not to mention the facial-recognition tool…