Despite public scrutiny over Amazon’s involvement with selling its facial-recognition technology to law enforcement, the company recently told employees at a company meeting that it will continue to participate in government contracts with its facial-recognition tool, Rekognition, The Verge reports. Amazon employees were the latest to question the company over the selling of such technology and raised issue with the decision at the meeting. Responding to an employee question, AWS CEO Andrew Jassy said, “We feel really great and really strongly about the value that Amazon Rekognition is providing our customers of all sizes and all types of industries in law enforcement and out of law enforcement.” He added, “you have to make sure that it’s being used responsibly, and that’s true with new and existing technology.”
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