Amazon just announced that it's going to suspend police use of its controversial facial recognition technology for one year
On Wednesday, Amazon announced it would suspend police use of its controversial facial-recognition technology, Rekognition, for one year.
Amazon last week put out a statement against police brutality and systemic racism, but advocates pointed out Amazon works with many police departments and that studies have shown Rekognition is biased against Black people and other people with darker skin.
slammed the company for supporting the George Floyd protesters while still promoting its technology to police.Amazon Web Services has sold its facial recognition software, called Rekognition, to police departments across the country, but numerous studies have found bias in the software that disproportionately target Black people and other darker-skinned people.
This rung hollow to many advocates, as AWS had still been working with police departments while studies have shown that Black people are more likely to be
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