Mashable reports that the American Civil Liberties Union will deliver a petition of more than 150,000 signatures to Amazon’s headquarters requesting that the company stop providing Rekognition, the company’s branded facial recognition technology, to the U.S. government. Nicole Ozer, ACLU of California technology and civil liberties director, said that had it not been for a Freedom of Information Act request, which showed the company practice of selling Rekognition to U.S. law enforcement, there might not have been a public discussion over the government’s new surveillance approach. Ozer said, "This demand is not about banning any technology or stopping any technology. But this face surveillance should not be in the hands of the government, particularly in the current political climate."
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