DATE: 7 /January/2025
Yealink is a globally recognized leader in Unified Communication & Collaboration Solutions, specializing in video conferencing, voice communications, and collaboration. Our mission is to empower individuals and organizations by enabling "Easy Collaboration, High Productivity."
As a company committed to innovation, Yealink actively explores and applies new AI technologies while prioritizing user privacy and security. We highly appreciate the AI Act as a pioneering global initiative in artificial intelligence regulations. This landmark legislation proposes standardized rules for the oversight of artificial intelligence systems, providing valuable guidance not only within the EU region but also for the global regulatory framework on artificial intelligence.
At Yealink, we are dedicated to delivering products and services that are both innovative and secure. We have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure full compliance with the obligations outlined in the AI Act. By doing so, we strive to provide our customers with safer and more advanced solutions.
Yealink and AI Act
Regulation Overview
The European Parliament adopted the Artificial Intelligence Act (the "AI Act") in March 2024, and the European Council officially approved the AI Act in May 2024. The AI Act came into effect on August 1, 2024. Th AI Act aims to regulate the use and development of artificial intelligence, ensuring its safety, transparency, and ethical compliance. It is the world's first comprehensive AI regulation, designed to establish rules that ensure AI technologies do not harm public interests, while promoting innovation and enhancing Europe's competitiveness in the global AI field. The Act utilizes the Risk-based approach to categorize regulated entities and subjects, prescribing different levels of requirements and obligations.
Yealink, as a deployer of AI system, utilizes well-established AI models. The AI systems deployed by Yealink fall under the category of limited-risk AI systems as defined in the AI Act. These systems primarily employ AI algorithms to detect and analyze sound and motion.
Applicability
1.UVC30, UVC34, UVC40, UVC40 E2, UVC84, UVC86, SmartVision40, and SmartVision60 individual products and corresponding MVC combination. Take Yealink UVC30-Room 4K USB Camera for example, Yealink UVC30 Room is a premium USB camera designed for small and huddle meeting rooms. Offering sharp images and accurate color reproduction, it provides a vivid face-to-face and remarkable video meeting experience in ultra HD 4K resolution and high frame rates. (Yealink’s product introduction webpage, taking Yealink UVC30 Room for example:https://www.yealink.com/en/product-detail/camera-uvc30-room)
2.MeetingBar A10/A20/A30/A40 individual products and combinations, which integrates the camera, microphone and speakers into an all-in-one system, allowing plug-and-play for a dedicated medium meeting room setup within minutes, greatly reducing the time needed for deployment and management. (Yealink 's product introduction webpage, taking MeetingBar A30 for example:https://www.yealink.com/en/product-detail/zoom-rooms-meetingbar-a30)
3.MeetingBoard 65/86, which consists of a 4k camera, crystal-clear speaker, full-duplex microphones, and a 65/86-inch smart collaboration whiteboard It has a conference meeting room video Display doubles as a whiteboard Writing function to provide an immersive meeting experience and allow collaboration anytime, anywhere. (Yealink’s product introduction webpage:https://www.yealink.com/en/product-detail/microsoft-teams-rooms-meetingboard65)
Yealink’s commitments and measurers to the AI Act
Yealink prioritizes the responsible and ethical deployment of AI technologies, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Our commitment to legal compliance and user protection drives our continuous efforts to enhance the safety and security of our AI systems.
The following key facts reflect Yealink’s commitment to AI security practices.
Transparency
Yealink room devices with AI capabilities only include video capabilities for human detection or smart camera functions, as well as audio features such as AI noise reduction and voice localization. These do not involve interaction with AI systems. However, Yealink AI-power device still complies with the transparency requirements of the product design, and when users use these devices, Yealink will clearly inform the user interface of the AI modes and functions currently in use.
Data Protection and Privacy Management
The Microsoft/Zoom Room Device with AI capabilities offered by Yealink focuses solely on the video feature of human detection, also known as intelligent camera feature, as well as the audio feature of AI noise cancellation and voice positioning. These AI capabilities have been developed by Yealink using open-source datasets and do not involve machine learning functionality. It is important to note that Yealink's AI-powered device does not collect any user data, nor does it possess any recording capabilities. As a result, Yealink does not have the ability or possibility to store or share any data generated from user interactions with our AI-powered devices. Furthermore, the AI function of Yealink's AI-powered device is disabled by default when the device is idle. Yealink prioritize user privacy and adhere to stringent data protection regulations.
Abuse Prevention and Risk Management
Yealink room devices with AI capabilities only include video capabilities for human detection or smart camera functions, as well as audio features such as AI noise reduction and voice localization. These do not involve interaction with AI systems. As a result, Yealink AI-power devices do not collect any user data, nor have any recording capabilities, and cannot generate false content, false comments or other harmful information.
Record Keeping and Documentation Management
Yealink's AI-powered device comes with AI features disabled by default. These capabilities are only activated during video conferencing to enhance the meeting experience through human detection, noise cancellation, and voice localization. Throughout these processes, Yealink's AI-powered device focuses solely on analyzing the physical presence and audio direction within the meeting space, ensuring no data is retained. Should there be any updates or enhancements to the functionality, Yealink is committed to transparently documenting these changes and updating its terms of use and privacy policy to reflect the ongoing commitment to maintaining a limited risk profile for the devices.
Yealink designs its services with AI Act requirements at the forefront
Yealink is committed to making every effort to build product features that align with AI Act requirements and foster protection of the Rights and interests of users. You can send an email to privacy@yealink.com if you have any further inquiries or require additional information.
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