From: The Washington Post | The Cybersecurity 202
House lawmakers are raising concerns that a powerful facial recognition tool Amazon is marketing to local law enforcement agencies could be used to inappropriately surveil innocent Americans and reinforce racial profiling of black communities.
In a pair of separate letters to Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos late last week, two House Democratsand the Congressional Black Caucus are seeking answers about Rekognition, the service the company is selling for an extremely low price to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando that allows police to scan footage of crowds for possible suspects in real time.
Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) want Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, to turn over a full list of agencies that use Rekognition and provide assurances that the company is taking steps to root out the potential for bias in the software.
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