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    Thanks to Amazon, the government will soon be able to track your face

    Putting the business needs of technology giants over our own privacy creates a grave risk to our democracy
    by Peter Asaro, Kelly Gates, Woodrow Hartzog, Lilly Irani, Evan Selinger and Lucy Suchman Jul 06, 2018 3 minutes
    COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - APRIL 12: Founder of space company Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, speaks about the future of commercial space travel during the 32nd Space Symposium on April 12, 2016 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, spoke to the crowd about the business and future of commercial space travel and how his new company, Blue Origin, is looking to make that more accessible to the general public. (Photo by Brent Lewis/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

    Amazon, the company synonymous with online shopping, is supplying facial recognition technology to government and law enforcement agencies over its web services platform. Branded Rekognition, the technology is every bit as dystopian as it sounds.

    Given the enormous reach of Amazon’s cloud platform and how easily organizations can integrate new applications into their operations, it’s disturbing that the company can offer a powerful platform-based surveillance technology without any public input, oversight or regulation. Amazon should not have free rein to develop and profit from new surveillance technologies

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