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> The tech firm had said it was aware of civil rights concerns but had not received any reports of law enforcement clients misusing its Rekognition tool. This
by multibit 7y ago
> The tech firm had said it was aware of civil rights concerns but had not received any reports of law enforcement clients misusing its Rekognition tool.
This really depends on their definition of "misuse", which can be molded to suit their financial goals. Eventually reports of questionable law enforcement use will come in, and I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients. This area desperately needs regulation.
- village-idiot 7y agoThey’ll just raise the bar to “well, no enforcement personnel went to jail, so we’re in the clear”
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago> I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients. Barret stopped selling to CA government agencies after CA banned "regular peasants" from owning Barret's flagship product. That said, this situation is very different politically. People aren't going to stop using AWS en-masse because Amazon is helping enable the police state.
- Blackthorn 7y agoSame for New York now that we can't own them there either. Nice to have someone stand up for us at least, as opposed to all those that will still happily sell to law enforcement.
- peteradio 7y agoThe anonymous report box was found to be emptying into an incinerator, the issue has been corrected we are unaware that any reports were incinerated.