What concerns me about this is that Amazon seems to play a long game when it comes to market dominance. Take for example how the introduction of Amazon Prime initially cost them millions in shipping, yet their revenue absolutely soared. If Amazon doesn't sell this technology to the surveillance state, another company is bound to. I don't think that Amazon will be backing down.

Thank for sharing.

>"In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and deportation of immigrants, it called on…"

>"In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and deportation of immigrants, it called on…"

"In February of 2018, MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, then a Microsoft researcher, published a groundbreaking study called Gender Shades on the gender and racial biases embedded in commercial face recognition systems. At the time, the study included the systems sold by Microsoft, IBM, and Megvii, one of China’s largest face recognition providers. It did not encompass Amazon’s Rekognition." [https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1003482/amazon-stopped-selling-police-face-recognition-fight/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2aJ_Fwo0MDLybB4S2quwtHtUbHRgGYTTaIA_3i1vQkUggc1JPRy_Y6GWA#Echobox=1593711900](https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1003482/amazon-stopped-selling-police-face-recognition-fight/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2aJ_Fwo0MDLybB4S2quwtHtUbHRgGYTTaIA_3i1vQkUggc1JPRy_Y6GWA#Echobox=1593711900)

Amazon still continued with business as usual despite American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) delivering 150,000+ petition signatures and a letter from the company’s own shareholders expressing concern. This was followed Amazon’s own employees saying there were not happy with the decision in an internal memo as they doubled down on providing surveillance technologies to governments. Despite all of this - Amazon still continue to have the trust of millions of users.

selling user data to police / goverment this is why we can trust any company, this really bad

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долой полицейское государство!!!!

Nice

good reading article

Everyone wants to make money... :/

Finaky get it

>"In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and deportation of immigrants, it called on…"

>"In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and deportation of immigrants, it called on…"

As tech grows, it should not degrade privacy and security of people.

Good

>"In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and deportation of immigrants, it called on…"

One way is by not working: by virtue of having higher error rates for people of color, it puts them at greater risk. The second situation is when it does work—where you have the perfect facial recognition system, but it’s easily weaponized against communities to harass them. It’s a separate and connected conversation

>"In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and deportation of immigrants, it called on…"

What is your take on Amazon selling techs that will help in facial recognition. Give your reasons below.

>"In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and deportation of immigrants, it called on…"

Two years in the making In February of 2018, MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, then a Microsoft researcher, published a groundbreaking study called Gender Shades on the gender and racial biases embedded in commercial face recognition systems. At the time, the study included the systems sold by Microsoft, IBM, and Megvii, one of China’s largest face recognition providers. It did not encompass Amazon’s Rekognition.

Thanks ofr sharing

Great