Amazon Temporarily Suspends Police Usage of its Facial Recognition Tech
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has made the decision to temporarily stop providing its facial recognition technology to police departments.
In a statement on its website, the tech stock said it is placing a one-year moratorium on police use of its Rekognition software. Amazon said it will continue to allow groups, including Thorn, the anti-human trafficking organization; the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children; and Marinus Analytics, which provides technology to fight human trafficking, to access its technology.
Source Fool.com