Activists rally outside of the Spheres at Amazon's Seattle headquarters on Monday, July 15, 2019. They called on the company to stop selling technology to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Benjamin Romano/Seattle Times/TNS)
SEATTLE: Several dozen activists chanted and held banners on July 15 outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters calling on the company to stop providing technology to US government immigration authorities, in one of several pressure campaigns focused on the commerce giant during its Prime Day summer sale.
Jennifer Lee of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington pointed to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s requests to perform face surveillance searches on images in state driver’s license databases in Washington and other states. She said that Amazon has pitched the agency on its facial recognition technology, Rekognition.
