Amazon is trying to regulate itself over facial recognition software — before Congress does

Vox --------- Amazon released a blog post on Thursday proposing ethical guidelines around the use of facial recognition technology and called for national legislation on the topic. The company’s own facial recognition software, called Rekognition, has been mired in controversy since its public debut two years ago. Rekognition can track people in photos or video and run those images against databases of millions of images in real time. The tool is currently used by at least one US law enforcement agency to help identify criminals. Dozens of civil rights groups and several lawmakers have expressed concern that the tool could be used for more widespread government surveillance — but Congress has yet to introduce legislation on the topic. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.