Amazon Rekognition

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technology giants Amazon, The Police has banned the controversial face recognition software for a year.

It Comes after civil rights advocates raised concerns about possible racial bias in the monitoring technology.

This Week , IBM also said it would stop offering its Facial Recognition software for "mass surveillance, or "racial profiling".

the decisions, The consequences, there is growing pressure on companies to respond to the death in police custody of George Floyd.

Amazon said the suspension of the law enforcement use of its Rekognition software was the legislature the power to regulate the laws are enacted, how the technology is used.

"We have expressed ourselves in favour of the governments of the stricter rules for The Ethical use of technology, face detection, and in the last days, Congress seems to be willing to accept this challenge," Amazon said in a statement.

"We hope that this one-year moratorium could help the Congress sufficient time for the implementation of the relevant rules, and we stand ready to, if desired. "

But The Company said it would still allow the organizations dealing with Human Trafficking to use the technology.

As with other Facial Recognition products, the Amazon Rekognition the Artificial Intelligence (AI) can to compare very quickly, an image of, for example, an officer of the mobile phone camera, and try to Match It with mug shots held on police databases, which can hold hundreds of thousands of photos.

the technology of face recognition has been criticised for some time about a possible bias, and other minorities than the white.

In The Past , Amazon Rekognition has defended against charges of bias, while they continue to provide to the law enforcement authorities.

The death in police custody of George Floyd, an African American man, inflamed these concerns as police tactics and the use of technology for law enforcement have been under intense observation.

at the beginning of This Week , as AI systems are used, which need to be tested in law enforcement, "bias".

In a letter to Congress, IBM chief executive Arvind Krishna , the "fight against racism is as urgent as ever", and three areas in which The Company wanted to with the Congress: the reform of The Police , the responsible use of technology and extension of skills and educational opportunities.

calls for legislation

In recent months, Congress has been weighing a possible legislation of the technology, such as the legislators, the companies and civil liberties activists have for greater regulation of surveillance software.

house Democrats introduced a police reform bill Monday that ban federal law enforcement use of real-time face detection, but some activists would say, the measure does not go far enough.

The American Civil Liberties Union, said that all the use of Facial Recognition on The Police body camera footage should be banned, and that the Federal funds should be limited for the local law enforcement authorities, not restrict, the use of technology in the same Way .

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Source of news: bbc.com