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ANALYSIS-'Racist' facial recognition sparks ethical concerns in Russia


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 .
Reuters | Updated: 05-07-2021 08:31 IST | Created: 05-07-2021 08:31 IST
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ANALYSIS-'Racist' facial recognition sparks ethical concerns...


Racist facial recognition sparks ethical concerns in Russia
Monday, 5 July 2021 03:00 GMT
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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Facial recognition firms under pressure over ethical concerns
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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 th ....

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