No Rekognition: Police ditch Amazon’s controversial facial recognition
Orlando Police have decided to ditch Amazon’s controversial facial recognition system Rekognition following technical issues.
Rekognition was called out by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for erroneously labelling those with darker skin tones as criminals more often in a test using a database of mugshots.
Jacob Snow, Technology and Civil Liberties Attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, said:
“Face surveillance will be used to...