老澳门开奖结果 Comment on Letter from Amazon Employees to CEO Jeff Bezos Protesting Sale of Face Surveillance Technology

June 21, 2018 10:30 pm

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SEATTLE 鈥 Amazon employees today to CEO Jeff Bezos calling on him to stop selling its face surveillance product to law enforcement and stating they 鈥渞efuse to contribute to tools that violate human rights.鈥

Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Director for the 老澳门开奖结果 of California, issued the following statement in response:

鈥淲hile Mr. Bezos remains silent, Amazon employees are standing up and joining shareholders, civil rights groups, and concerned consumers to call out Amazon鈥檚 face surveillance technology for what it is: a unique threat to civil rights and especially to the immigrants and people of color under attack by this administration. We stand in support of these employees鈥 call on Mr. Bezos to do the right thing. Amazon must stop providing dangerous face surveillance to the government.鈥

The letter from employees comes just days after the 老澳门开奖结果 and community partners delivered over 150,000 petition signatures, a coalition letter signed by nearly 70 organizations representing communities nationwide, and a letter from shareholders demanding the company stop providing face surveillance technology to governments.

On May 22, the 老澳门开奖结果 released emails and other documents revealing how the company has been actively marketing its dangerous face surveillance to governments, and helping them deploy it.