We worked on facial recognition for decades, recently added it to our console and Windows10 Hello, we built a decent API into our cloud.... but um now we need governments to stop us, please?
Ok, I mean... I guess I don’t understand big company speak. I didn’t see anywhere they are shutting down their own offerings.
The concerns for “race to the bottom” of tech are interesting. A cynical person might think MS was plenty ok with it when they had little competition but now that just anyone can do it they see the problems, as just a sign of self-interest.
Not that I disagree facial recognition can be abused, it will if not already is. They got it right with genie in a bottle. I don’t trust government to regulate themselves and expect the largest abuses from them. I highly suspect my time this year in Singapore was ‘heavily calacuated’ everywhere I went.