Microsoft Needs To Stop Selling Surveillance To The Nypd

Albert Fox Cahn and Will Luckman, Fast Company
Thu, 07/02/2020 - 1:00am

Microsoft’s decision not to sell facial recognition to the police means nothing if the company won’t stop selling the Orwellian Domain Awareness System to the New York Police Department. When Microsoft announced to much fanfare that they wouldn’t sell police facial recognition, almost no one asked the urgent follow-up question: “What about your other surveillance technology?” The truth is that Microsoft wasn’t selling police facial recognition to begin with, so their “principled stand” was nothing more than free PR.

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