Jun 21, 2018

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Amazon Needs to Stop Providing Facial Recognition Tech for the Government

The benefits do not outweigh its privacy risks and dangers

Imagine a technology that is potently, uniquely dangerous — something so inherently toxic that it deserves to be completely rejected, banned, and stigmatized. Something so pernicious…

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