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SEATTLE 鈥� A group of Amazon shareholders today that they have filed a shareholder resolution echoing widespread calls for Amazon to stop sales of facial recognition to the government. The , which asks Amazon鈥檚 board of directors to prohibit sales of facial recognition technology to government agencies unless the board concludes that the technology does not pose actual or potential civil and human rights risk, is intended to be voted on at Amazon鈥檚 annual meeting in spring 2019.

Shankar Narayan, Technology and Liberty Project director of the 老澳门开奖结果 of Washington, issued the following comment in response:

鈥淭he fact that Amazon鈥檚 shareholders felt compelled to take this up to the company鈥檚 board of directors should be a wake-up call to Amazon鈥檚 leadership to take concerns around face surveillance seriously. It shouldn鈥檛 take a board or shareholder intervention for the company to do right by immigrants, people of color, religious minorities, protesters, and activists who are disproportionately harmed by such new surveillance technologies. We continue to urge Amazon to heed calls from civil, human, and immigrants鈥� rights groups, academics, lawmakers, and its own shareholders, employees and consumers to stop selling facial recognition technology to the government.鈥�

The shareholder proposal comes days after 90 racial justice, faith, and civil, human, and immigrants鈥� rights groups sent coalition letters to Amazon, Microsoft, and Google demanding the companies commit not to sell face surveillance technology to the government. It also follows Google鈥檚 recent announcement that it will not sell a face surveillance product until the technology鈥檚 dangers are addressed and Microsoft the grave risks of face surveillance. In contrast, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has suggested waiting for society鈥檚 eventual 鈥溾�� to take care of the problems. Meanwhile, recent reports also revealed that Amazon met with ICE officials to discuss its face surveillance product.

The 老澳门开奖结果 revealed last year that Amazon has been actively marketing its face surveillance technology to law enforcement and helping them deploy it. The 老澳门开奖结果 also released results of a test showing that Rekognition falsely matched 28 current members of Congress with images in an arrest photo database. Congressional members of color were disproportionately identified incorrectly, including six members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

A large group of Amazon shareholders and hundreds of Amazon employees wrote to Bezos and consumers signed over 150,000 petitions demanding the company stop providing face surveillance technology to governments. Dozens of members of Congress also wrote to Amazon with civil rights concerns and questions about the sale of Rekognition to law enforcement, and requested information from federal agencies about the use of this technology.