[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Don't Let Amazon Make Tech Laws
The petition to Congress reads:
"Facial recognition technology laws should not be written by corporations.
This will only result in weak laws that do not protect US consumers and
put us all in more danger. Do not let Amazon influence any face
surveillance legislation."
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Dear John,
[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Don't
Let Amazon Make Tech Laws
Amazon wants to influence Congress.
Just last week, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos announced that his company is
developing legislation to regulate facial recognition software.^1
Rekognition, Amazon's facial recognition software, is frightening. In the
hands of government agencies, Rekognition would supercharge already
existing racist and discriminatory policing practices and boost the Trump
administration's efforts to suppress and criminalize dissent. Recent
reports reveal that law enforcement agencies in Florida and Oregon are
already using this mass surveillance system to police communities.^2 We
cannot let Amazon write laws to regulate its own data sucking, privacy
violating and dangerous surveillance technology.
[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Don't let Amazon make tech laws. Click here to sign the
petition
For years, Amazon has been facing public scrutiny over Rekognition. Amazon
employees, CREDO activists and lawmakers have called out Amazon for
marketing Rekognition to ICE and police.^3 Rekognition has been proven
racist, having nearly 40% false matches who were people of color in a test
by the ACLU.^4
This translates into real-life situations in which these surveillance
programs cannot correctly identity one person or color from another person
which leads to unfair arrests in communities that are already
over-policed.^5
Facial recognition technology further emboldens law enforcement to commit
mass racial profiling, targeting of political dissidents and other abuses.
The need for regulation on face surveillance technology is dire. But we
can't allow the same company that is pushing this faulty, biased
technology into our communities also write the laws to regulate it. That's
why it's important that we sound the alarm now, before Amazon has the
chance to influence Congress.
Tell Congress: Don't let Amazon make facial recognition laws. Click the
link below to sign the petition:
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Thanks for fighting back,
Jelani Drew, Campaign Manager
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets
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References:
1. Jason Del Rey, "[ [link removed] ]Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial
recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers" Vox, Sept. 26, 2019.
2. Elizabeth Dwoskin, "[ [link removed] ]Amazon is selling facial recognition to law
enforcement — for a fistful of dollars" The Washington Post, May 22,
2018.
3. Kate Conger, "[ [link removed] ]Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face
Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement" Gizmodo, June 21, 2018.
4. Jacob Snow, "[ [link removed] ]Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members
of Congress With Mugshots" ACLU, June 26, 2018.
5. German Lopez, "[ [link removed] ]There are huge racial disparities in how US police
use force" Vox, Nov. 18, 2018.
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