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kingo55 on June 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition

It's always a slippery slope when companies morally compel themselves to block use cases from their service.

I welcome this move from Amazon, but I hope it doesn't foreshadow more moral bans in future e.g. spurred on by the next angry mobs who will try to limit free speech in society.

genoapol on June 11, 2020 [–]

I hope unpolished technologies that put already marginalized groups in more potentially deadly and unecessary interactions with the police get binned.

If anyone has a hard time empathizing here, imagine your kids in the false positive person's shoes.

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