Amazon bans police use of its face recognition for a year

FILE - This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon said Wednesday, June 10, 2020, that it will pause police use of its facial recognition technology for a year. The Seattle-based company did not say why it was doing so, but protests after the death of George Floyd have focused attention on racial injustice in the U.S. and how police use technology to track people.

NEW YORK — Amazon on Wednesday banned police use of its face-recognition technology for a year, making it the latest tech giant to step back from law-enforcement use of systems that have been criticized for incorrectly identifying people with darker skin. In a blog post Wednesday, Amazon said that it hoped Congress would put in place stronger regulations for facial recognition.

Studies led by MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini found racial and gender disparities in facial recognition software. Those finding spurred Microsoft and IBM to improve their systems, but irked Amazon, which last year publicly attacked her research methods. A group of artificial intelligence scholars, including a winner of computer science’s top prize, last year launched a spirited defense of her work and called on Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition software to police.

Police use facial recognition to track criminals ...known criminals.

Why Amazon has a face recognition sofware That's the question

We don't want the police tracking people. If a criminal wants to be arrested, he or she can turn themselves in.

One year is insufficient. Make it permanent, or don't do it at all. We will not concede to scraps thrown from the table.

A few thousand Uyghurs are waiting for apologies...

amazon Not long enough. Just stop doing it... PERIOD!

In other news, we want to track you for safety, cause Corona.

In the 80s we could tell what you had for breakfast.

Why only a 'pause' and why only one year. If you do not want wide spread use of this technology you need to make fussy to local, state and federal representatives. The clock is ticking on getting restrictions places on this invasion of our privacy.

You think face, gate, anpr, browser fingerprinting. They know everything. You think Google and FB make money from thin air. You are a number not a colour.

What about ANPR.....Talon...RACAL.....you have no idea....

Feds should seize the software for National Security, who does this guy think he is, Jeff Bezos?

Thank you Amazon for taking a Stand against SystemicRacism

Good for Amazon GeorgeFloyd

No worries- Apple, Google, Facebook & DHS are still running facial recognition

What does amazon need facial recognition technology for anyway

Amazon has been doing what now?!

amazon make it permanent and we will all buy Amazon Prime pinky promise x 😘

Its because they already sold it to the CIA

mollywood something to make you sorta smile. Would be better if they flat out banned it, hence the sorta.

Gee, aren't they magnanimous?

Uh, why? Why are we against facial recognition now?

“Sure”

The police should cancel the contract with Amazon. No government institution should allow private entity (even Amazon) hold it by the ...... BanAmazon

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