Amazon issues one-year pause on police use of facial recognition software
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics centre in Boves, France, August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
Critics also have questioned the software’s accuracy, pointing to a past study showing Amazon’s “Rekognition” service struggled to identify the gender of individuals with darker skin tones. Amazon has taken issue with that research. Congress has been weighing possible regulations of facial recognition for months. On Monday, technology giant IBM wrote members to say it no longer is offering the software generally.
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