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Amazon Has Extended the Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
Law enforcement officials are still banned from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until further notice,” the company said on Wednesday, a decision that effectively extends a yearlong moratorium that had been set to expire on June 1.
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Jeff Bezos: How About Just Letting Amazon Draft Any Possible Facial Recognition Laws?
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, is hoping that U.S. Congress will take him up on the offer to just let him write any potential facial recognition laws that could interfere with the rollout of Amazon’s Rekognition tech, Recode reported on Thursday.
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Amazon Shareholders Fail To Limit Company’s Sale Of Facial Recognition Software
Long-simmering concerns over Amazon’s facial recognition software came to a head today during the company’s annual shareholder meeting, where activist investors put forward several agenda items that would increase oversight of the software and limit who could use it.
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U.S. Congressman Wants To Make Amazon Testify On Its Face Recognition Tool
Last year’s wide-ranging and critical congressional hearings caught Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple and other tech giants in their dragnet. Amazon, for the most part, came out unscathed, but that might soon change.