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Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2018-05-29 06:28:18
Digital Liberty

At the Private Internet Access Blog, Glyn Moody writes how Amazon and US schools are following in China's footsteps to normalize automatic facial recognition and constant surveillance [privateinternetaccess.com]. Materials gained Freedom of Information Act requests by the ACLU have documented that Amazon has been marketing in its hosted "Rekognition" products to both police forces and schools to facilitate mass surveillance inside the US and to inure the coming generations to it.


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