October 2, 2019

Microsoft, don't enable the occupation

Microsoft has made a lot of noise recently about how they're the one tech giant taking ethical concerns about facial recognition & other surveillance technology seriously. They widely publicized a set of six "moral standards" they’d apply to funding and developing any such tech.
Their multi-million dollar investment in AnyVision was made on the condition that AnyVision agree to those six principles. A month later, it came out that the Israeli army is using AnyVision's facial recognition tech throughout the West Bank.2

 

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