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Detroit Man Wrongly Arrested by Facial Recognition Tech
People are starting to pay attention to the rise of face recognition tech.
It somehow took the George Floyd protests to get Big Tech to pull back on facial recognition tech
IBM, Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking whether they want to offer surveillance tech.
GitLab backtracks on controversial user tracking
GitLab are reacting to the backlash that their recent changes made.
US tech companies with ties to Google are helping Middle East dictators, report suggests
The report suggests that US surveillance tech is being put to bad use in the Middle East and North Africa.
US tech companies are helping China monitor millions of its citizens, report shows
China has a history of oppression and a new report suggests US tech firms are profiting off of it.
IBM acquires open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion
The company now hopes to compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud space.
CERN want to see if it can operate with mostly open source software to “take back control”
The move is mostly driven by the costs of using Microsoft services but it could have other implications too.
IBM is selling facial recognition tech to Middle Eastern dictatorships, report claims
It wouldn’t be the first time a US company has sold controversial invasive tech to other nations.