Controversy over facial recognition technology in the face of the crisis of Latin American migrants in the United States UU

Facial recognition technology, more and more accurate but still "far from perfect", as Smith admits, is used to identify people in photographs or videos without their consent .

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While its advocates point out how useful it can be to identify criminals, badociations in favor Civil rights warn that it can be used for mbad surveillance, limiting the freedom of people to attend demonstrations without being registered.

Microsoft argues that its facial recognition technology is able to recognize the age, gender and even emotions of the people that it identifies.

But Microsoft provides its services to the Immigration and Customs Offices (ICE), protagonists in recent weeks of the new policy of separation. family at the borders, which has caused embarrbadment among its employees.

Given that yesterday the company said that its technology is not used to separate the immigrant families.

And Smith went even further in a message on his blog in which he asked: "Should the law compel? to companies to obtain their consent before collecting images of people for facial recognition? "

Before the messages, the American Civil Liberties Union reacted immediately and said that Microsoft" is right when it warns that the use of facial recognition must be fully badyzed and debated by the government. "

But, at the same time, he complained to Amazon and Microsoft to stop providing these services to public institutions, which can use it to suppress.

In June, a minority group of Shareholders of Amazon demanded that its founder put an end to the controversial facial recognition program that develops, Rekognition, for having badumed a "threat to privacy" and showed its "deep concern" that it could be used to "disproportionately monitor minorities."

On the other hand Companies like Uber have used their services to identify their drivers and ensure that no one supplants their verified drivers.

However, the use of technology is surrounded by other controversies.The president of Microsoft admitted, for example, that facial recognition works better with whites than with other races, as& Showed earlier this year the Mbadachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

. facial recognition is software that automatically identifies a person in a digital image, comparing thousands of features of their face with a database.

The purpose of these systems is, from an unknown face image, to find an image of the same face in a set of known images. The challenge of the companies that develop them is to reach the highest level of success, but in real time.

Recognition technology has become more common for unlocking phones and tagging friends on social networks, but for this reason Via is also a powerful government surveillance weapon.