{"id":35431,"date":"2020-06-09T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/31279\/IBM-Quits-Facial-Recognition-Market-Over-Police-Racial-Profiling-Concerns.html"},"modified":"2020-06-09T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:52:47","slug":"ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ibm\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" class=\"u-underline\">IBM<\/a> is pulling out of the facial recognition market and is calling for \u201ca national dialogue\u201d on the technology\u2019s use in law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt about-face comes as technology companies are facing increased scrutiny over their contracts with police amid violent crackdowns on peaceful protest across America.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/policy\/facial-recognition-susset-racial-justice-reforms\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">a public letter to Congress<\/a>, IBM chief executive, Arvind Krishna, explained the company\u2019s decision to back out of the business, and declared an intention \u201cto work with Congress in pursuit of justice and racial equity, focused initially in three key policy areas: police reform, responsible use of technology, and broadening skills and educational opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company, Krishna said, \u201cno longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and principles of trust and transparency,\u201d he added. \u201cWe believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial-recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But some are sceptical of IBM\u2019s move, noting that the company was already in a distant third place in the race to sell facial-recognition technology, and that the company\u2019s statement leaves loopholes. It reserves the right to sell facial recognition technology for specific purposes, for example, as well as to re-sell the same technology from other vendors as part of its large consulting business.<\/p>\n<p>The statement is still the strongest yet from a major technology company against misuse of facial recognition services, which have provoked alarm among civil rights communities for their ability to silently track entire populations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, facial recognition technology has steadily gained ground as a policing tool, despite the objections of groups such as Liberty and Amnesty International, who argue that it\u2019s a violation of privacy without the accuracy required to be useful for preventing crime.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the Met police launched its largest trial yet, scanning shoppers in the Stratford Centre mall in east London to try to match them against a checklist of more than 5,000 people \u201cwanted for serious criminality, such as grievous bodily harm.\u201d The trial was rolled out despite warnings from watchdogs including&nbsp;the information commissioner, the surveillance camera commissioner and the biometric commissioner,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/feb\/11\/met-police-deploy-live-facial-recognition-technology\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">critics alleged.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/sep\/20\/microsoft-boss-tech-firms-must-stop-if-its-legal-its-acceptable-approach\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/sep\/20\/microsoft-boss-tech-firms-must-stop-if-its-legal-its-acceptable-approach\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">president, Brad Smith, told the Guardian<\/a>&nbsp;that the company was voluntarily withholding its own facial recognition technology from governments that wold use it for mass surveillance, but stopped short of committing to an all-out ban.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a technology that can be deployed in, literally, an Orwellian fashion,\u201d Smith said. \u201cBut I think whenever you want to ban a technology, you also have to ask, well, what are the potentials for it to do good as well? And so then the question is how do you strike the balance? I don\u2019t think that you strike that balance by banning all use. You strike that balance by banning the harmful use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, whose multibillionaire founder Jeff Bezos&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/jason-aten\/jeff-bezos-publicly-called-out-a-racist-customer-why-that-matters.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">came out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement<\/a>&nbsp;last week, has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/06\/03\/amazon-police-racism-tech-black-lives-matter\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">repeatedly refused to answer questions<\/a>&nbsp;on the use of its own facial-recognition technology in policing protest.<\/p>\n<p>The company also owns Ring, a smart home subsidiary that has worked closely with police in the past. It has partnered with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/08\/28\/doorbell-camera-firm-ring-has-partnered-with-police-forces-extending-surveillance-reach\/?arc404=true\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">more than 400 forces<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/8\/6\/20756555\/amazon-ring-police-security-camera-footage-warrant-privacy-surveillance\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"u-underline\">helped law enforcement gain access<\/a>&nbsp;to surveillance footage without requiring a warrant, offering advice to officers such as being more active on social media in order to encourage owners to volunteer their recordings. In 2018, Amazon patented a proposal for pairing facial-recognition technology with its doorbells, describing a system that the police could use to match the faces of people walking by a doorbell with a photo database of \u201csuspicious\u201d people.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union slammed the plan, saying that Amazon was \u201cdreaming of a dangerous future, with its technology at the centre of a massive decentralised surveillance network, running real-time facial recognition on members of the public using cameras installed in people\u2019s doorbells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/31279\/IBM-Quits-Facial-Recognition-Market-Over-Police-Racial-Profiling-Concerns.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[8698],"class_list":["post-35431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlinegovernmentprivacyibmusaspyware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security &amp; Cyber Threats Analysis Hub. 100% Free OSINT Threat Intelligent and Cybersecurity News.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security &amp; Cyber Threats Analysis Hub. 100% Free OSINT Threat Intelligent and Cybersecurity News.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-09T15:52:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"TH Author\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@threatshub\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@threatshub\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"TH Author\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"TH Author\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/12e0a8671ff89a863584f193e7062476\"},\"headline\":\"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-09T15:52:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":719,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i.guim.co.uk\\\/img\\\/media\\\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\\\/0_0_3500_2100\\\/master\\\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46\",\"keywords\":[\"headline,government,privacy,ibm,usa,spyware\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Packet Storm\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/\",\"name\":\"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i.guim.co.uk\\\/img\\\/media\\\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\\\/0_0_3500_2100\\\/master\\\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-09T15:52:47+00:00\",\"description\":\"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security & Cyber Threats Analysis Hub. 100% Free OSINT Threat Intelligent and Cybersecurity News.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i.guim.co.uk\\\/img\\\/media\\\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\\\/0_0_3500_2100\\\/master\\\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i.guim.co.uk\\\/img\\\/media\\\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\\\/0_0_3500_2100\\\/master\\\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"headline,government,privacy,ibm,usa,spyware\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/tag\\\/headlinegovernmentprivacyibmusaspyware\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News\",\"description\":\"%%focuskw%% Threat Intel \u2013 Threat Intel Services \u2013 CyberIntelligence \u2013 Cyber Threat Intelligence - Threat Intelligence Feeds - Threat Intelligence Reports - CyberSecurity Report \u2013 Cyber Security PDF \u2013 Cybersecurity Trends - Cloud Sandbox \u2013- Threat IntelligencePortal \u2013 Incident Response \u2013 Threat Hunting \u2013 IOC - Yara - Security Operations Center \u2013 SecurityOperation Center \u2013 Security SOC \u2013 SOC Services - Advanced Threat - Threat Detection - TargetedAttack \u2013 APT \u2013 Anti-APT \u2013 Advanced Protection \u2013 Cyber Security Services \u2013 Cybersecurity Services -Threat Intelligence Platform\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Threatshub.org\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ThreatsHub.org\",\"alternateName\":\"Threatshub.org\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/Threatshub_Favicon1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/Threatshub_Favicon1.jpg\",\"width\":432,\"height\":435,\"caption\":\"ThreatsHub.org\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/threatshub\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.threatshub.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/12e0a8671ff89a863584f193e7062476\",\"name\":\"TH Author\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/066276f086d5155df79c850206a779ad368418a844da0182ce43f9cd5b506c3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/066276f086d5155df79c850206a779ad368418a844da0182ce43f9cd5b506c3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/066276f086d5155df79c850206a779ad368418a844da0182ce43f9cd5b506c3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"TH Author\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News","description":"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security & Cyber Threats Analysis Hub. 100% Free OSINT Threat Intelligent and Cybersecurity News.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News","og_description":"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security & Cyber Threats Analysis Hub. 100% Free OSINT Threat Intelligent and Cybersecurity News.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/","og_site_name":"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News","article_published_time":"2020-06-09T15:52:47+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"TH Author","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@threatshub","twitter_site":"@threatshub","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"TH Author","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/"},"author":{"name":"TH Author","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/12e0a8671ff89a863584f193e7062476"},"headline":"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns","datePublished":"2020-06-09T15:52:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/"},"wordCount":719,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46","keywords":["headline,government,privacy,ibm,usa,spyware"],"articleSection":["Packet Storm"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/","url":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/","name":"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46","datePublished":"2020-06-09T15:52:47+00:00","description":"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security & Cyber Threats Analysis Hub. 100% Free OSINT Threat Intelligent and Cybersecurity News.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07f6ce392c3fa5024b2b80d6a2ce115c8c88b51b\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=fe2005531400b06625d753b357328d46"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-police-racial-profiling-concerns\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"headline,government,privacy,ibm,usa,spyware","item":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/tag\/headlinegovernmentprivacyibmusaspyware\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"IBM Quits Facial Recognition Market Over Police Racial Profiling Concerns"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/","name":"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News","description":"%%focuskw%% Threat Intel \u2013 Threat Intel Services \u2013 CyberIntelligence \u2013 Cyber Threat Intelligence - Threat Intelligence Feeds - Threat Intelligence Reports - CyberSecurity Report \u2013 Cyber Security PDF \u2013 Cybersecurity Trends - Cloud Sandbox \u2013- Threat IntelligencePortal \u2013 Incident Response \u2013 Threat Hunting \u2013 IOC - Yara - Security Operations Center \u2013 SecurityOperation Center \u2013 Security SOC \u2013 SOC Services - Advanced Threat - Threat Detection - TargetedAttack \u2013 APT \u2013 Anti-APT \u2013 Advanced Protection \u2013 Cyber Security Services \u2013 Cybersecurity Services -Threat Intelligence Platform","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Threatshub.org","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"ThreatsHub.org","alternateName":"Threatshub.org","url":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/coredata\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Threatshub_Favicon1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/coredata\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Threatshub_Favicon1.jpg","width":432,"height":435,"caption":"ThreatsHub.org"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/threatshub"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/12e0a8671ff89a863584f193e7062476","name":"TH Author","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/066276f086d5155df79c850206a779ad368418a844da0182ce43f9cd5b506c3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/066276f086d5155df79c850206a779ad368418a844da0182ce43f9cd5b506c3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/066276f086d5155df79c850206a779ad368418a844da0182ce43f9cd5b506c3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"TH Author"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}