WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on June 12, 2020 - What about face-recognition?

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Important reaction from tech companies about police brutality! @WSJ wrote that #Microsoft, like #Amazon and #IBM don’t want to sell facial-recognition technology to the US police until there is a national law regulating the use of this technology. #facialrecognition #police 

#WR: Important point: "Concerns surrounding the surveillance technology have grown amid a nationwide outcry against police brutality" Tech companies reacts! https://wsj.com/articles/microsoft-pledges-not-tosell-facial-recognition-technology-to-police-absent-national-rules-11591895282

via @WSJ 

Microsoft Pledges Not to Sell Facial-Recognition Technology to Police Absent National Rules

Microsoft joined other big tech names including Amazon.com and International Business Machines call for clearer rules around the surveillance technology amid widespread concern about its potential...

wsj.com

IMPORTANT: Technology is only a tool that can be used in a good or bad way! Rethink about this!!!

SOURCES: My own tech think tank and The Wall Street Journal column