Axon, the country’s leading manufacturer of police body cameras, announced it is banning the use of facial-recognition technology on its devices, The Hill reports. The company made the announcement after consulting with an outside committee of researchers. "After a year of meetings and research, Axon’s AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board concluded that face recognition technology is not yet reliable enough to justify its use on body-worn cameras, and expressed particular concern regarding evidence of unequal and unreliable performance across races, ethnicities, genders and other identity groups," the independent ethics board wrote in a statement. Earlier this year, San Francisco became the first city to ban the use of facial-recognition technology by law enforcement agencies.
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