Amazon has indefinitely extended its moratorium on selling Rekognition, its cloud-based facial recognition service, to law enforcement agencies, reported Reuters. Amazon first announced the ban last June, explaining that it hoped Congress would develop rules to prevent the technology from being used for unethical purposes. That hasn’t happened, although some cities have passed restrictions...
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