Amazon, Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft used people's photos to train their facial recognition technologies without obtaining the subjects' permission, in violation of an Illinois biometric privacy statute, a trio of federal lawsuits filed Tuesday allege.
The photos in question were part of IBM's Diversity in Faces database, which is designed to advance the study of fairness and accuracy in facial recognition by looking at more than just skin tone, age and gender. The data includes 1 million images of human faces, annotated with tags such as face symmetry, nose length and forehead height.
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"IBM has been a strong proponent of regulating facial recognition, but in June the company announced it's withdrawing from the facial recognition market, saying it worries that the technology is being used to promote discrimination and racial injustice."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm really not worried about that.
Much more worried that Democrats would abuse it just like they weaponized the justice department
Picky, picky on my part, but the journalist writing the story says the suit is a federal suit, but farther down in the story says suits were filed in state courts in Washington and California. On the face of the story, it seems written by someone who thinks the US has one big court system and does not realize the difference between state and federal.
ReplyDeleteHey, Sarge, all they gotta know is that the Feds send out money if the States run out, right?
Delete...and the IRS. You gotta wonder with all of the illicit and illegal actions taken during the Obama years, how he and the Demonrats can consider themselves paragons of virtue with a straight face. ...and STILL no one has gone to jail or even been arrested and it took 9 months to get that fucker Koskinen fired.
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