Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S...
by confounded on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @05:26PM
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> The cat is out of the bag and is already something the police could do themselves
Yes. But what’s striking is that by offering this product and heavily marketing its law enforcement use, Amazon are clearly endorsing total surveillance as their preferred model of society.
I don’t imagine this will be incredibly lucrative relative to other AWS products. There’s very few potential customers. Law enforcement access to data is extremely broad, data-osmosis/‘fusion’ with the private sector is rife, and the whole area is pretty much unregulated. The potential for abuse is large.
Yes. But what’s striking is that by offering this product and heavily marketing its law enforcement use, Amazon are clearly endorsing total surveillance as their preferred model of society.
I don’t imagine this will be incredibly lucrative relative to other AWS products. There’s very few potential customers. Law enforcement access to data is extremely broad, data-osmosis/‘fusion’ with the private sector is rife, and the whole area is pretty much unregulated. The potential for abuse is large.