The ethical considerations played a large part of the pivot. I would rather help people communicate than surveil them.
That said, we build embeddable/edge face rec because we could, and I believe our partners who used it in the real pre-pandemic world found some very innocuous uses for it. In one case we replaced a system running all the faces through Rekognition with one running purely on devices and not storing any long-term data, which I think was an ethics win overall.
That said, we build embeddable/edge face rec because we could, and I believe our partners who used it in the real pre-pandemic world found some very innocuous uses for it. In one case we replaced a system running all the faces through Rekognition with one running purely on devices and not storing any long-term data, which I think was an ethics win overall.