George Floyd’s death, and weeks of global protest against racial inequality that followed, have persuaded two of Silicon Valley’s biggest brands to rethink facial recognition technology. On Tuesday IBM announced it would…
Amazon Bites Back at Police Face Recognition Critics
Amazon has defended the use of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology to power US police facial recognition platforms, amid concern the firm is underpinning “authoritarian” policing techniques. An open letter signed…
In Two Separate Corners of the World, Tech Changes a Police Crisis
America and the Philippines are enduring police crises. In the former, riots continue to break out and public debate is fierce following a string of deaths–mostly of black men–at the hands of…