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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Microsoft on Tuesday said it would stop selling technology that guesses someone\u2019s emotion based on a facial image and would no longer provide unfettered access to facial recognition technology.
\nThe actions reflect efforts by leading cloud providers to rein in sensitive technologies on their own as lawmakers in the United States and Europe continue to weigh comprehensive legal limits. Since at least last year, Microsoft has been reviewing whether emotion recognition systems are rooted in science.
\n\u201cThese efforts raised important questions about privacy, the lack of consensus on a definition of \u2019emotions,\u2019 and the inability to generalize the linkage between facial expression and emotional state across use cases, regions, and demographics,\u201d Sarah Bird, principal group product manager at Microsoft\u2019s Azure AI unit, said in a blog post.
\nExisting customers will have one year before losing access to artificial intelligence tools that purport to infer emotion, gender, age, smile, facial hair, hair and makeup.
\nAlphabet Inc\u2019s Google Cloud last year embarked on a similar evaluation, first reported by Reuters. Google blocked 13 planned emotions from its tool for reading emotion and placed under review four existing ones, such as joy and sorrow.
\nIt was weighing a new system that would describe movements such as frowning and smiling, without seeking to attach them to an emotion. Google did not immediately respond to request for comment on Tuesday.
\nMicrosoft also said customers now must obtain approval to use its facial recognition services, which can enable people to log into websites or open locked doors through a face scan.
\nThe company called on clients to avoid situations that infringe on privacy or in which the technology might struggle, such as identifying minors, but did not explicitly ban those uses.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Lesotho. Microsoft on Tuesday said it would stop selling technology that guesses someone\u2019s emotion based on a facial image and would no longer provide unfettered access to facial recognition technology. 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