The protests around the death of George Floyd go on. The situation is more than tense, and also larger companies will see the consequences. First of all, the IT company, IBM, announced that they would provide the government no facial recognition Software more ready. It’s a similar message from Amazon that followed, however, the retailer spoke the spell Ran out, initially for a period of one year. Then Microsoft responded to the word. The developers announced that they would be approved to sell facial recognition Software to the U.S. police, to laws that regulate the use of this technology. In the case of the US government, this announcement was, however, not very good.
Trump is mad
After the Microsoft decision, the former Ambassador of the USA in Germany, Richard Grenell announced on his Twitter Account that the US government should be making from now on, no contracts with Microsoft. According to Grenell there needs to be consequences for the non-sale of technologies to police departments. And so it also sees the US President Donald Trump. Because of this retweetete the Post of Grenell and showed that he supported the idea.
Whether or not to Retweet too, is currently unclear. However, an exclusion from the list of companies with which the U.S. government operates trade would have a big impact on Microsoft. In order to clarify the extent of the possible consequences: Until the end of 2019, Microsoft has received from the Pentagon a contract in the amount of 10 billion US dollars. Such orders should fail in the future, this would mean big financial losses for the Windows developer.
Huawei is disgraced
Trump levers and medium enterprises has to punish at will. The experience of the Chinese manufacturer Huawei is already on its own body. Since Google must not drive with Huawei trade, you can install the company does not use Google services on their own Smartphones. As a result of the sales of Huawei mobile phones, fell outside the Chinese borders and, accordingly, the profit of the company. The new Numbers paint a grim picture.
This article was written by Artem Sandler
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