Amazon imposes one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology

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Amazon today said it’s declared a halt of the sale of facial recognition to police departments for one year. The news comes one day after George Floyd, a man killed by the Minneapolis Police Department, was laid to rest in Houston, and shortly after IBM pledged to end the sale of or research into facial recognition technology.  » ….