Analysis | The Technology 202: Nuns are leading the charge to pressure Amazon to get religion on facial recognition

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Analysis: Nuns are leading the charge to pressure Amazon to get religion on facial recognition

"I call it the mission of the portfolio," Mahoney tells me.

"“There’s a growing consensus that this powerful surveillance technology needs to come under democratic control,” said Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU senior legislative counse, who will be testifying before the committee today. “Members of Congress need to hit the pause button on law enforcement use of this dangerous surveillance technology.

The U.S. has taken action against the company in the past on national security grounds. Last year, Congress banned federal agencies from purchasing equiptment from Hikvision, as well as Huawei, ZTE, Hytera and Dahua. Hikvision's surveillance cameras are deployed by the Chinese government in the Muslim-majority region Xinjiang to combat what the government describes as separatist terrorism.

"Developed by Amazon, the games are displayed on small screens at employees’ workstations," Greg writes."As wheel giant shelves up to each workstation, lights or screens indicate which item the worker needs to pluck to put into a bin.

 

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