📸Amazon Is Selling Cheap, Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology to Cops
The software, created by Amazon Web Services, is called “Amazon Rekognition” and promises to “perform real-time recognition of persons of interest from camera live streams against your private database of face metadata,” according to the company’s marketing materials.
The software uses image recognition algorithms to track and identify objects in people when tested against an existing database of videos or photos.
The software was created last year, but new documents obtained using freedom of information requests by the American Civil Liberties Union shows how it’s currently being used by police, how they hope to use it in the future, and reveal that federal data fusion centers are interested in the technology.
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