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The Financial Times article provides a little more depth. It mentioned that Google has already decided to delay the rollout of any general-purpose facial recog
by LeftHandPath 7y ago
The Financial Times article provides a little more depth. It mentioned that Google has already decided to delay the rollout of any general-purpose facial recognition tools, in anticipation of malicious use. The FT article also calls his comments a "call for a moratorium", which is quite different than a call for heavy long-standing regulation.
His comments seem a little more driven by things like the use of cameras to identify and locate Uighur Muslims for the purpose of locking them in concentration camps in Xinjiang, where over 1.8 million Muslims are already detained [0,1], than the more civilian uses of unlocking cell phones and bank accounts.
[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...
[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/fa6bd0b0-1d87-11ea-9186-7348c2f183af https://www.ft.com/content/fa6bd0b0-1d87-11ea-9186-7348c2f18...
- rogerkirkness 7y agoGiven that facial recognition is already good enough to be universal, including in Google Photos which is exceptional at it, you would think that ship has sailed at this point.
- taneq 7y ago> Google has already decided to delay the rollout of any general-purpose facial recognition tools ...for use by anyone but themselves, of course.