Microsoft’s Calling It Quits on Creepy Emotion Recognition Tech
Photo: John MacDougall (Getty Images)Microsoft’s turning its back on its scientifically suspect and ethically dubious emotion recognition technology. For now, at least.In a major win for privacy advocates sounding the alarm on under-tested and invasive biometric technology, Microsoft announced it’s planning to retire its so-called “emotion recognition” detection systems from its Azure Face facial recognition services. The company will also phase out capabilities that attempt to use AI to infer identity attributes like…