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ANALYSIS- Racist facial recognition sparks ethical concerns in Russia
There is no indication yet that Russian police have targeted minorities using the software developed by the firms - AxxonSoft, Tevian, VisionLabs and NtechLab - whose products are sold to authorities and businesses in the country and abroad. But Moscow-based AxxonSoft said the Thomson Reuters Foundation s enquiry prompted it to disable its ethnicity analytics feature, saying in an emailed response it was not interested in promoting any technologies that could be a basis for ethnic segregation .
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Racist facial recognition sparks ethical concerns in Russia
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FILE PHOTO: Visitors experience facial recognition technology at Face++ booth during the China Public Security Expo in Shenzhen, China October 30, 2017. Picture taken October 30, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
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By Umberto Bacchi
TBILISI, July 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - (Editor s note: contains offensive language and terms of racial abuse)
From scanning residents faces to let them into their building to spotting police suspects in a crowd, the rise of facial recognition is accompanied by a growing chorus of concern about unethical uses of the technology.
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TBILISI/KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - China’s sweeping ban on cryptocurrency mining delivered a blow to an industry criticised for its environmental impact, but emissions from the sector could grow as a result unless other countries follow China’s lead, climate and tech experts said.
Bitcoin’s value tumbled last week after China’s central bank urged banks and payment firms in the country to crack down harder on cryptocurrency trading, in the latest tightening of restrictions on the sector by Beijing.
This was good news for climate activists, who have voiced concerns over the potential for the energy-hungry cryptocurrency mining industry to disrupt international efforts to rein in global warming.