Microsoft announces refusal to sell facial recognition technology to police

Microsoft reports has announced that it will not supply facial recognition technology to police officers, the ACLU .

Earlier in the day, Amazon for a year banned facial recognition technology US police from using Amazon Rekognition . During this time, the authorities should develop laws tightening the rules for using the tracking system.

In addition, the American company IBM announced that it will no longer develop facial recognition technology. IBM . called for a national dialogue about whether police should use the new surveillance system As noted CNBC , citing a source “familiar with the situation,” the company decided to stop developing facial recognition technology after the death of African-American George Floyd during detention and the issue of racial inequality.

At the end of May, Floyd from Minnesota was strangled by police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on the detainee’s neck. Due to the man's death, mass protests began across the country.