Letter to Amazon: Face Surveillance Technology

January 15, 2019 Jeffrey P. Bezos, Founder and Chief Executive Officer David Zapolsky, General Counsel and Senior Vice President Amazon.com, Inc. Dear Mr. Bezos and Mr. Zapolsky, We are a coalition of organizations dedicated to protecting civil rights and liberties and safeguarding communities. We write today to reiterate our demand that Amazon stop providing its face surveillance product, Rekognition, to the government. Protecting communities and retaining customer trust requires that Amazon act immediately. Since we sent our first letter in May 2018, Rekognition has been the subject of widespread…

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