Following a product event in Seattle, Bezos told reporters that Amazon's public policy team is working on draft rules, which could apply broadly to all facial recognition services, because"there's lots of potential for abuses with that kind of technology, and so you do want regulations.""It's a classic, you know, dual use kind of technology. You can have good things and you can have bad things," Bezos said.
Some of Amazon's own employees and investors have balked at Rekognition's expansion, in some cases calling on the company to refrain from selling the tool to governments unless independent analyses can show the technology won't violate human or civil rights.Amazon acknowledged that pressure in February, when it unveiled a series of proposed guidelines to govern the use of facial recognition tech.
Won't make any difference. The Chinese and Russians will find a way to steal the data on Americans and Europe already has it in use, so either don't travel or host accept that it is here to stay.
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