Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company's fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around OpenAI tech.

Microsoft is more explicitly banning police departments from using its AI models to identify suspects, according to new conduct language for its Azure OpenAI collaboration. The new language explicitly prohibits using its AI model services "for facial recognition purposes by or for a police department in the United States.

Microsoft is banning the use of its artificial intelligence service for facial recognition “by or for” police departments in the United States.

Jammu and Kashmir Police, in a significant stride towards bolstering security measures, made functional an advanced AI-based facial recognition system (FR) at Navyuga Checking Plaza, Banihal, under the jurisdiction of Police Post Jawahar Tunnel Police Station Banihal,