Protestors at the Amazon Web Services Summit last week called for Amazon to stop providing services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Government Technology reports. The protest occurred after leaked documents revealed AWS is open to “providing ICE with its Rekognition Video system.” While ICE does not currently have a facial-recognition contract with Amazon, it does have a contract with Four Points Technology that offers unlimited cloud storage solutions on AWS. In June, Amazon announced support for U.S. federal regulation on the misuse of facial recognition software.
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