A big fear of mine around invasive new tech like facial recognition is that we won't learn any lessons about unintended consequences from past big tech blunders. That's why this feels like a big deal. https://t.co/neqR20I4yj

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) June 27, 2019

HUGE: Major police body camera vendor @axon_us bans use of face recognition technology on its cams, responding to the recommendation to do so from its ethics board. https://t.co/sDnNysLxGl

— Laura Moy (@lauramoy) June 27, 2019

Great! You can also encrypt the video feed: California: Stop Face Surveillance on Police Body-Worn Cameras https://t.co/2hhzokidFx

— Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. (@AnnCavoukian) June 27, 2019

3. Read the @axon_us statement carefully:

- *current* face matching technology
- will not be commercializing . . . *at this time*

Axon is leaving the door open. Legislators need to shut that door.https://t.co/SY68NFC8gZ

— Harlan Yu (@harlanyu) June 27, 2019

A company’s independent #AI-#Ethics board determined that #Face-#Recognition in police body cams is too faulty and biased to be used in real life!

Impressive to see, that independent AI-ethics boards do their work and disapprove questionable technology! https://t.co/cTpf3NED0a

— Pirate Security Conference (@PirateSecon) June 27, 2019

Face recognition ban proposal clears hurdle in Oakland https://t.co/aL79d5Enta

— Brian Hofer (@b_haddy) June 26, 2019

Oakland's Public Safety Committee voted 4-0 to pass the ordinance written by the Privacy Advisory Commission.

It now moves to full council on July 16. https://t.co/lc3h7DOjLh

— KTVU (@KTVU) June 26, 2019

First San Francisco. Now Oakland's next.

Government face surveillance isn't inevitable. Democracy means we can choose where to draw the line. https://t.co/zTIt4fHv03

— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) June 26, 2019

Axon (formerly Taser) says facial recognition on police body cams is unethical https://t.co/owJ753k8iV pic.twitter.com/4bxeUaSNsM

— The Verge (@verge) June 27, 2019

Major news today: Following a call from its AI Policing Technology & Ethics board, Axon agrees to keep face recognition off its products. #policingtech https://t.co/h0ni6dJyFR

— Policing Project (@policingproject) June 27, 2019

Good--but with caution, as always: "Axon, the company that supplies 47 out of the 69 largest police agencies in the United States with body cameras and software, announced Thursday that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices." https://t.co/xFhgPOsb2d

— Elizabeth Joh (@elizabeth_joh) June 27, 2019

Important move by Axon’s Ethics Board to Ban Facial Recognition.

1. A victory for ethics advisory boards.

2. A victory for those concerned with facial recognition

⁦@policingproject⁩ ⁦@barryfriedman1⁩ https://t.co/gSZjfRuTKy

— Andrew G. Ferguson (@ProfFerguson) June 27, 2019

A few thoughts on today’s Axon AI Ethics Board report:

1. It's important that the board and the company both recognize the dangers of face recognition in the hands of law enforcement. This is a baseline.https://t.co/Scbn8IEoQ4https://t.co/FmGn9M4Fwv

— Harlan Yu (@harlanyu) June 27, 2019

"Just because you can build it, doesn’t mean you should.”—Prof. @barryfriedman1 talks to @cwarzel about @axon_us's ban on the use of facial recognition in its police body camera devices: https://t.co/FlFhbfBPg9

— NYU Law (@nyulaw) June 27, 2019

This is huge: Axon is placing a moratorium on using facial recognition on its devices. https://t.co/zewdewssGR

— William Isaac (@wsisaac) June 27, 2019

So important to see tech voluntarily regulating itself on a critical issue like this. Great work ⁦@policingproject⁩ at NYU School of Law. Opinion | A Major Police Body Cam Company Just Banned Facial Recognition - The New York Times https://t.co/QCfQrufi2M

— Anne Milgram (@AnneMilgram) June 27, 2019

Very excited about the publication of the first report of Axon's AI ethics board (of which I'm a member). Here's an article about it - will post the direct link when available! https://t.co/PlHpwHuiad

— Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage) June 27, 2019

A Major Police Body Cam Company Just Banned Facial Recognition https://t.co/UpLSvVdKFY > ‘Face recognition technology is not currently reliable enough to ethically justify its use,” the company’s independent ethics board concluded.

— Ivana Bartoletti (@IvanaBartoletti) June 27, 2019

"If the stewards of our biggest technology companies don’t operate with an internal conscience, the least they could do is outsource one," writes @cwarzel https://t.co/HozvEvEkpT

— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) June 27, 2019

When the company that makes Tasers decides facial recognition isn't currently reliable enough to be ethically used, that seems like a moment. https://t.co/wEBZyy5rAe

— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) June 27, 2019

Axon has announced that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices.

Opinion at @nytopinion: https://t.co/9vXCSf1htE

— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) June 27, 2019

Today Axon announced it is banning incorporation of facial recognition into its police body camera systems. This is a big deal – Axon is America’s largest body cam vendor. It offers free cameras and supplies 47 of the 69 biggest departments using body camshttps://t.co/sNZtUHnpUL

— ?Jake Laperruque? (@JakeLaperruque) June 27, 2019

Axon's Ethics Board is banning the use of FRT on body cameras for now. https://t.co/VYjsfSi7g2. Coincidentally, privacy, civil liberties, & civil rights groups joined a letter to that Board last year expressing the issues with tech like FRT on body cams. https://t.co/HN34da9SGh

— Jeramie D. Scott (@JeramieScott) June 27, 2019

Axon, the company that supplies 47 out of the 69 largest police agencies in the United States with body cameras and software, announced Thursday that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices. https://t.co/1sBM88QXLg

— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) June 27, 2019

Dear #NYPD, if even #Axon (the company that makes your officers’ body cams) thinks that #facialrecognition is too biased/problematic to be deployed, why do you still use it to arrest and jail New Yorkers? #ai #ethics #civilrights #POSTAct https://t.co/8ASNvmt27o

— Albert Fox Cahn (@CahnLawNY) June 27, 2019

Police body camera company Axon announced that it will not be deploying facial recognition in its products due to "ethical concerns" (for now, anyway) https://t.co/kD2AGb2Y1P

— Motherboard (@motherboard) June 27, 2019

Police body camera company Axon announced that it will not be deploying facial recognition in its products, for now, due to “ethical concerns.” https://t.co/unJ7hcyfsi

— VICE (@VICE) June 27, 2019

Californians called for police officers to wear cameras with the hope that doing so would improve police accountability, not further mass surveillance. Tell your state senator to support AB 1215. https://t.co/t6u72D0sG9

— EFF (@EFF) June 27, 2019

Great! You can also encrypt the video feed: California: Stop Face Surveillance on Police Body-Worn Cameras https://t.co/2hhzokidFx

— Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. (@AnnCavoukian) June 27, 2019

Axon은 경찰 바디 카메라에 얼굴 인식 기술을 사용하지 않을 것이라고 https://t.co/dfJfsxGKJw

— editoy (@editoy) June 28, 2019

Axon, which makes tasers, and body cams for police, has forsworn the use of face recognition tech for those cameras because it isn't yet reliable enough.
Maybe Google should talk to them about how to set up advisory boards.https://t.co/5t61TOStEx

— Calum Chace (@cccalum) June 28, 2019

Axon (formerly Taser) says facial recognition on police body cams is unethical https://t.co/owJ753k8iV pic.twitter.com/Dr28jXTX2W

— The Verge (@verge) June 28, 2019

“Axon, the company that supplies 47 out of the 69 largest police agencies in the United States with body cameras and software, announced Thursday that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices.” https://t.co/Bab3wl20TP

— Alondra Nelson (@alondra) June 27, 2019

A Major Police Body Cam Company Just Banned Facial Recognition https://t.co/eVvcYjphgg

— Motor City Muckraker (@MCmuckraker) June 28, 2019

As a member of this Ethics Board, I must give a shout-out to @lauramoy @harlanyu @paulohm @teamupturn @civilrightsorg @policingproject. I learned so much from you and your work. As the saying goes, no pares, sigue, sigue . . . https://t.co/eZ0QdfjcAZ

— Christy Lopez (@Christy_E_Lopez) June 27, 2019

Axon, who supply 47 of the largest U.S. police agencies in the U.S. with body cams and software, will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices: “Face recognition technology is not currently reliable enough to ethically justify its use".https://t.co/InpkiS2yxZ

— Disruption Network Lab (@disruptberlin) June 27, 2019

What can experts, advocates, lawmakers, and police tech manufacturer Axon (@axon_us) all agree on? Face surveillance is too dangerous to be turned against the public. #CALeg should heed this warning and ban face surveillance from body cameras. #AB1215 https://t.co/aPVggPfGN9

— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) June 27, 2019

A major body cam company will not integrate facial recognition because the technology is not yet accurate enough. Knowing when to adopt - and NOT adopt - a new technology is an important element of quality in criminal justice. https://t.co/lBx10unS6x

— Quattrone Center (@QuattroneCenter) June 27, 2019

A Major Police Body Cam Company Just Banned Facial Recognition; Its ethics board says the technology is not reliable enough to justify using. https://t.co/dLO9XFdtkU

— ashe dryden (@ashedryden) June 27, 2019

Facial recognition is facing serious backlash. Now, even police body cam makers are banning the technology, writes @cwarzel https://t.co/9gS7lmuUUM

— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) June 27, 2019

#privacy https://t.co/IiB6Db6NMR California: Stop Face Surveillance on Police Body-Worn Cameras ♻ @eff

— ciderpunx (@ciderpunx) June 28, 2019