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https://www.rt.com/news/450500-microsoft-cruel-facial-recognition-gov/
Microsoft's chief shot down calls to stop selling facial recognition tech to governments, saying it would be “cruel” to deprive state agencies of the ability to monitor the public’s every move – despite his own misgivings.
More than 85 human rights groups wrote to Microsoft, Amazon and Google in January urging them to stop selling facial recognition software to government agencies over fears of state surveillance and the potential threat to activists, immigrants and others.
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For Microsoft or any other big tech company to say that it would be 'cruel' to stop selling privacy-invasion technology to governments sounds hypocritical. These people are in the business of making money from the intellectual property generated by their engineers & scientists & could not care less about its intrusive effects on our daily lives.
Quoting the head of Microsoft, 'Microsoft President Brad Smith told Business Insider – apparently without any irony – that such a move would itself be “cruel in its humanitarian effect.” So you can case your desire for anonymity goodbye. Welcome 1984, whose title is just a few decades out of date but whose prophecies of an all-seeing police state are coming true..
Microsoft's chief shot down calls to stop selling facial recognition tech to governments, saying it would be “cruel” to deprive state agencies of the ability to monitor the public’s every move – despite his own misgivings.
More than 85 human rights groups wrote to Microsoft, Amazon and Google in January urging them to stop selling facial recognition software to government agencies over fears of state surveillance and the potential threat to activists, immigrants and others.
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For Microsoft or any other big tech company to say that it would be 'cruel' to stop selling privacy-invasion technology to governments sounds hypocritical. These people are in the business of making money from the intellectual property generated by their engineers & scientists & could not care less about its intrusive effects on our daily lives.
Quoting the head of Microsoft, 'Microsoft President Brad Smith told Business Insider – apparently without any irony – that such a move would itself be “cruel in its humanitarian effect.” So you can case your desire for anonymity goodbye. Welcome 1984, whose title is just a few decades out of date but whose prophecies of an all-seeing police state are coming true..
