Amazon Is Suspending Police Use Of Its Facial Recognition Tech For One Year
A woman wears a mask during a Black Lives Matter protest in Centenary Square in Birmingham. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduffthat it would be implementing a one-year suspension on law enforcement use of Rekognition, the company’s facial recognition technology.
The move comes during a national moment of protests against police brutality, which have swept through the country after police killed two unarmed Black people, George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville.
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