Jeff Bezos, president and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, speaks at the Economic Club of Washington DC's"Milestone Celebration Dinner" in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
“Our public policy team is actually working on facial recognition regulations, and it makes a lot of sense to regulate that,” Bezos told reporters at the company’s annual Alexa devices launch in Seattle on Wednesday. Critics have pointed to technology from Amazon and others that struggled to identify the gender of individuals with darker skin in recent studies. That has prompted fears of unjust arrests if the technology is used by more law enforcement agencies to identify suspects.
Defeated by Botox
EmmanuelMacron cedric_o on se réveille?! Maintenant l’ambition des GAFA, après la monnaie, est d’écrire la Loi 😱 Vous souscrivez ou avez-vous l’intention de défendre notre société et notre mode de vie?
Great. Why isn't any jurisdiction and working on such, why is private self-regulation the best earth can come up with?!
Welcome to the United Googles of Amazon.
No thank you Lex Luthor
Why? Are they the government now? Oh, wait...
...because we have too much unnecessary privacy
Crazy to think that some how they will abuse the laws that they themselves come up with. What ever happened to an independent body coming up with laws.
Big Tech companies like Amazon and microsoft are calling to 'regulate' facialrecognition because they want to skip the debate about whether technology this dangerous and invasive should have any role at all in a free and open society.
Reuter’s how did you recognize Bezos in this picture I can barely see him past the tie knot?
J e f f B e z o s L e x L u t h o r
Oh. So they represent the public interest now. Wonderful.
Jeff going to be pinged as Gollum or Jeff Norton for the rest of his natural life, so this tech has to perform.
Jeff's first test of the new facial recognition:
jfc bezos, sit one out will you?
Horrifying
JeffBezos 'Our facial recognition software is perfect. Except that it continues to identify me as a 'butternut squash''
Crony capitalism: Succeed. Regulate competition.
Shouldn’t someone other than the evil company using that technology work on those regulations?