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Quoting from your link: >>> IBM no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software. IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of a
by saint-loup 6y ago
Quoting from your link:
>>> IBM no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software. IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and Principles of Trust and Transparency. We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies.
Even if the phrasing is limited to "general purpose" and "software", it still seems a pretty strong stance to me.
- rurban 6y agoI tend to start liking them more and more. Power as only unbackdoored modern CPU, and now this. Seems to be a big marketing push, in the right direction.
- wrkronmiller 6y ago> Power as only unbackdoored modern CPU Can you provide more details/proof?
- jedieaston 6y agoI think they are referring to it not having Intel ME or TrustZone (which is present in AMD chips and ARM chips), which could allow the processor manufacturer to run code that you don't know about. Of course, there's no Power systems for consumer use, so we're kind of stuck with Intel/AMD (until Apple releases those ARM Macs, which probably can't boot linux :( ).
- thinkmassive 6y agoRaptor Computing Systems makes the Talos II and Blackbird, both with POWER9 CPUs and available for purchase by consumers today.
- Sylamore 6y agoIBM recently laid off many of the POWER staff (effectively OpenPOWER only has a skeleton crew, POWER lost people too though) in their last round of layoffs. Speculation is that they are on the path to sell off the POWER design group.
- strogonoff 6y agoI personally appreciate IBM helping raise awareness of those issues. I was only noting a factual mistake in headlines reporting on this letter.