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Microsoft quietly deleted the world’s largest public facial recognition data set. It was being used by Megvii and SenseTime, two Chinese facial recognition companies who have contracts and business relationships in Xinjiang.https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-quietly-pulls-its-database-of-100-000-faces-u-1835296212 …
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I know that Microsoft isn’t perfect — after all, it was the one that created and released the facial recognition database — but I think this is commendable, especially since competitors like Amazon are actively trying to sell surveillance tech to cops.
Praise where praise is due. Still a long way to go...https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/01/microsoft-joins-group-seeking-to-avoid-climate-change-lawsuit …
