IBM Returns To the Facial Recognition Market

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By BeauHDSep 1, 2023, 6:00 am359 pts
During the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, IBM announced that it would no longer offer "general purpose" facial recognition technology due to concerns about racial profiling, mass surveillance, and other human rights violations. Now, according to The Verge and Liberty Investigates, "IBM signed a $69.8…

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