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. 

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