Amazon defeated shareholder’s vote on facial recognition by a wide margin

Amazon defeated shareholder’s vote on facial recognition by a wide margin

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/28/amazon-facial-recognition-vote/

Efforts by shareholders to instruct Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology to government customers failed by a wide margin, according to a new corporate filing with regulators.

About 2.4 percent of shareholders voted for the proposal, a fraction of the 50 percent necessary to pass. The measure needed to reach a 5 percent threshold for it to be re-introduced to shareholders again.