Police are using Amazon's facial recognition tool and the ACLU says it could pose a 'grave threat' to communities
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/aclu-police-use-of-amazon-facial-recognition-could-pose-grave-threat.html
The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy activists are asking Amazon to stop marketing a powerful facial recognition tool to police, saying law enforcement agencies could use the technology to "easily build a system to automate the identification and tracking of anyone."
The tool, called Rekognition, is already being used by at least one agency — the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Oregon — to check photographs of unidentified suspects against a database of mug shots from the county jail, which is a common use of such technology around the country.
