Amazon along with International Business Machines Corp and Microsoft Corp announced last week they would stop – in some cases just temporarily – selling facial-recognition software to law enforcement. — AFP Relaxnews
A House lawmaker in the United States is pressing Amazon.com Inc’s Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos to reveal more details about the company’s plans to pause selling facial-recognition software to law enforcement.
Representative Jimmy Gomez, a California Democrat, wrote Bezos in a letter dated June 16 that Amazon should say whether it will stop developing its facial-recognition system during its one-year moratorium on police use of the software. Amazon along with International Business Machines Corp and Microsoft Corp announced last week they would stop – in some cases just temporarily – selling facial-recognition software to law enforcement.
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