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Amazon has announced a one-year moratorium on the sale of #Rekognition, its facial recognition tool, to US law-enforcement.
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The company has renewed its call for Congress to pass laws regulating FR technology. A charitable interpretation of this call is that the company is genuinely concerned with the abuse of its tools.
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However, if that's true, it could voluntarily withdraw its products from customers like ICE and law enforcement.
A more realistic take is that the company wants to have an external authority it can appeal to when it is accused of unethical conduct.
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A more realistic take is that the company wants to have an external authority it can appeal to when it is accused of unethical conduct.
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