ACLU says Amazon facial recognition associated Congress members with mugshots
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/aclu-says-amazon-facial-recognition-associated-congress-members-with-mugshots/
As far as attention-grabbing stunts go, this is a pretty good one. The ACLU has been attempting to raise awareness of Amazon’s Rekognition software for some time, stating that it “raises profound civil liberties and civil rights concerns.”
For its part, Amazon has brushed these off, telling TechCrunch back in May, “As a technology, Amazon Rekognition has many useful applications in the real world.” In a bid to get Congress to sit up and take notice, however, the ACLU says it used Rekognition to scan images of every current member of Congress.
ACLU says Amazon facial recognition associated Congress members with mugshots
Jul 26, 2018, 4:57pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/aclu-says-amazon-facial-recognition-associated-congress-members-with-mugshots/
> As far as attention-grabbing stunts go, this is a pretty good one. The ACLU has been attempting to raise awareness of Amazon’s Rekognition software for some time, stating that it “raises profound civil liberties and civil rights concerns.”
> For its part, Amazon has brushed these off, telling TechCrunch back in May, “As a technology, Amazon Rekognition has many useful applications in the real world.” In a bid to get Congress to sit up and take notice, however, the ACLU says it used Rekognition to scan images of every current member of Congress.