On Might 10, 40 advocacy teams despatched an open letter demanding a everlasting ban on the usage of Amazon’s facial recognition software program, Rekognition, by US police. The letter was addressed to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, the corporate’s present and incoming CEOs, and got here simply weeks earlier than Amazon’s year-long moratorium on gross sales to regulation enforcement was set to run out.  The letter contrasted Bezos’s and Jassy’s vocal help of Black Lives Matter campaigners throughout final summer time’s racial justice protests after the homicide of George Floyd with reporting that different Amazon merchandise have been utilized by … Read More