Microsoft has rejected a request from California law enforcement to use facial recognition technology created by the company.
Microsoft President Brad Smith, at a speech at Stanford University, expressed concern that the performance of facial recognition technology when processing data from women and representatives of different ethnic groups is significantly reduced. The thing is that data from men of European appearance are predominantly used to train facial recognition systems.
Over the past few years, there has been active debate between supporters and opponents of facial recognition technologies. Amazon, for example, has come under fire in the past for selling facial recognition technology to police. As for Microsoft, while participating in this dispute, it spoke about the need for federal regulation. The President of Microsoft believes that companies should not rush to introduce facial recognition technologies, as this could lead to violations of human rights. He also noted that Microsoft recently abandoned a deal to introduce a facial recognition system into one of the correctional institutions, considering that such a step would violate the rights of prisoners.
Despite this position and refusal to sell its own technology to the California police, Smith reported that Microsoft provided a facial recognition system to one of the American prisons, believing that human rights would not be violated, and the overall level of security in the institution would increase significantly.
Source: 3dnews.ru