{"id":44062,"date":"2020-06-11T08:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44062"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:20:23","slug":"wapo-amazon-bans-police-use-of-its-facial-recognition-technology-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44062","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/06\/10\/amazon-rekognition-police\/\">Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year<\/a> by Jay Greene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>SEATTLE  \u2014 Amazon has banned police from using its controversial  facial-recognition technology for a year amid ongoing nationwide  protests over police brutality and racial profiling.<\/p><p>Amazon made the announcement in a brief statement  on its corporate blog, though it never mentioned the protests or the  recent death of George Floyd after a Minneapolis police officer dug his  knee into his neck. But Amazon implied recent events drove its decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year by Jay Greene:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44063,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44062\/revisions\/44063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}