Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company won’t sell facial recognition software to U.S. police departments until there are laws in place governing the use of such technology. The pledge comes a day after rival Amazon paused similar usage...
Amazon’s software has been the focus of an intense debate about the potential for it to undermine human rights, shining an uncomfortable spotlight on Amazon’s cloud-computing division.
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The European Commission said it wants feedback on “a possible new competition tool” to tackle structural competition problems “in a timely and effective manner.”
