Amazon’s facial acknowledgment tech has a couple of more difficulties to clear.
CNET
Amazon investors will vote next month on whether the business need to offer its questionable facial acknowledgment innovation to federal governments.
The retail giant on Thursday stated its yearly investors conference will be hung on May 22. Among the products to be voted on is an investor proposition that would prohibit the sale of Amazon’s Rekognition tech to federal government companies unless “the board concludes, after an evaluation using independent evidence, that the technology does not cause or contribute to actual or potential violations of civil and human rights.”
Civil liberties groups, members of Congress, Amazon staff members and some investors have actually gotten in touch with the business to stop offering its Reckognition software application to federal government companies. The program has actually been slammed for not being totally dependable and making errors with its matches. Concerns were raised last July when the American Civil Liberties Union stated Reckognition software application improperly determined 28 Congress members as wrongdoers.
Amazon’s board is advising that investors vote versus the proposition.
“In the two-plus years AWS has been offering Amazon Rekognition, AWS has not received a single report of Amazon Rekognition being used in the harmful manner posited in the proposal, but is aware of many beneficial purposes of Amazon Rekognition, including by law enforcement to help improve public safety,” composed Amazon’s board of directors in proxy files for the yearly conference. “We do not believe that the potential for customers to misuse results generated by Amazon Rekognition should prevent us from making that technology available to our customers.”
The business didn’t right away react to an ask for remark.
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