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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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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