Tech Companies Are Limiting Police Use of Facial Recognition. Here's Why

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Earlier this month, IBM said it was getting out of the facial recognition business. Then Amazon and Microsoft announced prohibitions on law enforcement using their facial recognition tech. There's growing evidence these algorithmic systems are riddled with gender and racial bias. Today on the show, Short Wave speaks with AI policy researcher Mutale Nkonde about algorithmic bias — how facial recognition software can discriminate and reflect the biases of society.

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0:37.7	So today we're talking about some pretty big news from the world of tech,
0:42.8	which is that Amazon, Microsoft,
0:45.7	and IBM are placing significant limits
0:48.8	around their facial recognition technology.
0:51.6	Yeah, this is kind of a sea change for these companies
0:55.0	to voluntarily regulate facial recognition technology,
0:58.8	citing concerns about how this tech is used by law enforcement,
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