CNBC reports U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos requesting further explanation of the Big Tech company's recently announced facial recognition moratorium. Gomez wrote the "ambiguity" of Amazon's one-year pause on supplying law enforcement with facial recognition software "raises more questions than answers."
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