Police Facial Recognition

• Police can’t use facial ID technologies for mass surveillance: Canada’s privacy watchdogs

  On Monday, the Canadian privacy watchdogs also called for a prohibition on any police deployment of the facial recognition tool that could result in mass surveillance.

  Canada

  May 2, 2022
  
• Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology for a year

  Ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd have focused attention on racial injustice in the U.S. and how police use technology to track people.

  World

  Jun 10, 2020
  
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• Amazon is selling ‘authoritarian surveillance’ tech to police, civil rights groups want it to stop

  In emails sent between Amazon employees, Amazon claims its product can search against databases holding millions of faces and can identify up to 100 people in a single image.

  Consumer

  May 22, 2018