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Amazon Puts One-Year Moratorium on Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology

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Tech giants question whether face detecting technologies should be used by law enforcement agencies, as protests against police brutality continue in the United States…
Amazon announced on Wednesday it has banned using Rekognition by police for at least one year.
On Monday, another tech giant, IBM, said it was quitting facial recognition software, with CEO Arvind Krishna appealing to US lawmakers, „We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies“.

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