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Can someone explain what has kicked off this retraction from face recognition from IBM and now Amazon? I mean it’s always had dubious uses. What has made this h

• MattGaiser 6y ago
  Opinion of police departments is falling so this could quite plausibly be the next big battleground.
• 1-6 6y ago
  It's perfectly acceptable to cash in on using face recognition for profit but dubious when used to lock people behind bars sarcasm
• pvaldes 6y ago
  Probably that everybody is using masks so the system lacks of essential parts and does not work anymore until is rebuilt and fixed. There could be also a risk of database being tainted by masks with something print over it, like lips, wrinkles in the mask, or even the face of somebody. And of course you can not require citizens to show the face and to cover the face at the same time, so to try to publicly denounce people with the face covered as delinquent wannabe is not possible at this moment. But I'm just speculating.
  • 1-6 6y ago
    You have a point there. I can see people continuing to wear masks even after the order is lifted across cities.
    • pvaldes 6y ago
      Taking in mind the US healthcare system, americans should have a bigger incentive to wear masks than south koreans, if only for protecting themselves and their families from hospital bills.