Employee warns Amazon’s unchecked power includes ‘authoritarian surveillance’ tech
by WorldTribune Staff, October 19, 2018 An anonymous Amazon employee has called out the company for selling facial-recognition technology to the federal government and local police departments. In an essay posted on Medium.com, the employee said Amazon’s “Rekognition” software is being created to automatically sort through live video feeds and identify wanted criminals. This has civil libertarians […]