Amazon announces one-year ban on police use of facial recognition tech
Amazon is instituting a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition, its facial recognition software, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Report: Man Arrested for Threatening Google Didn’t Know His Wife Deleted His YouTube Account
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