{"id":1662,"date":"2020-06-11T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:26:04","slug":"amazon-pauses-police-use-of-its-facial-recognition-software-news-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Amazon pauses police use of its facial recognition software | News | Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/ajimpact\/amazon-pauses-police-facial-recognition-software-200610223207468.html\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/908191b240e51371b7c6dd8ec1e8071651f64f19441fdcb7805e83eca434a49a.png\" class=\"image-treated\" data-original=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0f78a2d311514a62850f0a8edb450e47_18.jpg\" data-treated=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/908191b240e51371b7c6dd8ec1e8071651f64f19441fdcb7805e83eca434a49a.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com Inc said it is implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, a reversal of its longtime defence of law enforcement&#8217;s use of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant is the latest to step back from law-enforcement use of systems that have faced criticism for incorrectly identifying people with darker skin. The Seattle-based company did not say why it took action now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/ajimpact\/amazon-pauses-police-facial-recognition-software-200610223207468.html\">Amazon pauses police use of its facial recognition software | News | Al Jazeera<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc said it is implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, a reversal of its longtime defence of law enforcement&#8217;s use of the technology. The tech giant is the latest to step back from law-enforcement use of systems that have faced criticism for incorrectly identifying people with darker skin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}