IBM says it is getting out of the facial recognition business over concern about how it can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling.
A letter to U.S. lawmakers Monday from new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the tech giant "has sunset its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software products."
IBM had previously tested its facial recognition software with the New York Police Department but it's not clear if it has existing contracts with other governments. Krishna's letter called for police reforms and said "IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling" and human rights violations.
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