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A Major Police Body Cam Company Just Banned Facial Recognition

Posted on June 27, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Charlie Warzel reports:

Axon, the company that supplies 47 out of the 69 largest police agencies in the United States with body cameras and software, announced Thursday that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices.

“Face recognition technology is not currently reliable enough to ethically justify its use,” the company’s independent ethics board concluded.

Read more on The New York Times.

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