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SEATTLE 鈥� Amazon today announced a one-year moratorium on its sale of face recognition technology to law enforcement. The 老澳门开奖结果 two years ago revealed that the company is secretly selling this technology to police, and has since led a coalition effort calling on the company to stop fueling police abuses and civil rights violations with the sale of this technology to law enforcement.

Below is comment from Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties director with the 老澳门开奖结果 of Northern California, in response to this news:

"It took two years for Amazon to get to this point, but we鈥檙e glad the company is finally recognizing the dangers face recognition poses to Black and Brown communities and civil rights more broadly.

鈥淭his surveillance technology鈥檚 threat to our civil rights and civil liberties will not disappear in a year. Amazon must fully commit to a blanket moratorium on law enforcement use of face recognition until the dangers can be fully addressed, and it must press Congress and legislatures across the country to do the same. They should also commit to stop selling surveillance systems like Ring that fuel the over-policing of communities of color.

鈥淔ace recognition technology gives governments the unprecedented power to spy on us wherever we go. It fuels police abuse. This surveillance technology must be stopped.

鈥淲别 urge Microsoft and other companies to join IBM, Google, and Amazon in moving towards the right side of history.鈥�

In May of 2018, the 老澳门开奖结果 released the results of an investigation showing that Amazon was selling face surveillance technology to law enforcement. Then, in a test the 老澳门开奖结果 conducted in July 2018 how law enforcement were using the technology in the field, Amazon鈥檚 Rekognition software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime. The false matches were disproportionately of people of color, including six members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Numerous prior to that have found demographic differences in the accuracy of facial recognition technology.

Members of Congress raised the alarm and numerous government agencies over the civil rights implications of facial recognition technology.

The 老澳门开奖结果 is also leading a nationwide movement to ensure individuals 鈥� not private entities or government agencies 鈥� get to decide if and how surveillance technologies are used in their communities. Already, as part of 老澳门开奖结果-led campaigns, multiple towns and cities, including San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland, California, and Springfield and Cambridge, , have adopted model 老澳门开奖结果 legislation banning the government鈥檚 use of face recognition. Following another 老澳门开奖结果-led coalition effort, the state of California blocked use of the technology on police body cams.

The 老澳门开奖结果 is also calling for changes to the Justice in Policing Act, introduced by the U.S. House of Representatives in the wake of the George Floyd protest and which will be considered next week, to prohibit face recognition from being used in conjunction with body worn cameras.