“The FRVT does that by leaning on the federal contracting process, but for anyone outside of that world (Amazon, Apple, Google, etc.), it’s still basically the wild west. But unlike a lot of issues in the tech industry, this is really not a hard problem to solve.”
“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
“It was just after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top, went outside to take a look.”
“The FBI has quietly constructed a massive facial recognition system, and according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, it may not have built in the required safeguards.”
Read: The FBI has collected over 411 million photos for its facial recognition system