IBM will no longer provide facial recognition technology to police departments for mass surveillance and racial profiling, Arvind Krishna, IBM's chief executive, wrote in a letter to Congress.
LGBTQ+ policiesConfirmed
IBM extends health-care coverage to same-sex couples
IBM extended health-care coverage to same-sex couples, becoming the largest U.S. employer to do so.
With 110,000 employees in the United States, IBM is the largest employer yet to extend health-care coverage to couples of the same sex.
A steady march by corporate America toward providing benefits for the partners of lesbian and gay employees took its largest step forward Thursday when IBM announced that it would do so for its domestic work force beginning in January.
Despite these announcements, last month, IBM signed a $69.8 million (£54.7 million) contract with the British government to develop a national biometrics platform that will offer a facial recognition function to immigration and law enforcement officials...
According to documents reviewed by Liberty Investigations and The Verge, IBM inked a $69.8 million contract with the British government to create a biometrics platform complete with facial recognition functionality just last month.
Despite these announcements, last month, IBM signed a $69.8 million (£54.7 million) contract with the British government to develop a national biometrics platform that will offer a facial recognition function to immigration and law enforcement officials, according to documents reviewed by The Verge and Liberty Investigates, an investigative journalism unit in the UK.
Wages & economic policyConfirmed
IBM spends $650,000 on federal lobbying
IBM spent $650,000 on federal lobbying in the third quarter of 2020.
According to a Bloomberg report last year, IBM stopped tying executive compensation to diversity goals and revised its supplier diversity program to no longer focus on race and gender.
Red Hat parent IBM drops DEI hiring incentive, erases diversity from new annual report
In early 2021, months removed from the murder of George Floyd and a summer of social justice protests, IBM began sharing overviews of its "diversity, equity and inclusion efforts." That year, the global technology company also added "a diversity modifier" which influenced executive compensation, crediting managers whose hiring efforts better reflected the diversity of their communities.
Wages & economic policyConfirmed
IBM urged to disclose lobbying details
IBM is urged to provide annual report details on its dark money lobbying through trade associations and social welfare groups.
"Dark money" spending through trade associations and social welfare groups presents unknown risks, he claims, urging IBM to provide details of its lobbying in an annual report to shareholders.
ManufacturingConfirmed
IBM invests $150 billion in U.S. manufacturing
IBM announced a $150 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing to fuel the economy.
IBM on Monday announced it will invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, including more than $30 billion to advance American manufacturing of its mainframe and quantum computers.
Policing & prisonsConfirmed
IBM donates $5,000 to police club
IBM donated $5,000 to the Montgomery County Police Boys and Girls Club, expressing appreciation for police assistance during a shootout at its Bethesda offices.
The IBM Corporation, expressing its appreciation for police help during a shootout last month at the firm's Bethesda offices, has donated $5,000 to the Montgomery County Police Boys and Girls Club, police announced yesterday.