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recent bookmarks from jmACLU to Amazon: Get out of the surveillance business2018-05-23T16:49:45+00:00
https://action.aclu.org/petition/amazon-stop-selling-surveillance
jmAlready, Rekognition is in use in Florida and Oregon. Government agencies in California and Arizona have sought information about it, too. And Amazon didn't just sell Rekognition to law enforcement, it's actively partnering with them to ensure that authorities can fully utilize Rekognition's capabilities.
Amazon has branded itself as customer-centric, opposed secret government surveillance, and has a CEO who publicly supported First Amendment freedoms and spoke out against the discriminatory Muslim Ban. Yet, Amazon is powering dangerous surveillance that poses a grave threat to customers and communities already unjustly targeted in the current political climate.
We must make it clear to Amazon that we won't stand by and let it pad its bottom line by selling out our civil rights.
]]>aclu amazon rekognition facial-recognition faces law privacy data-privacy civil-rightshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:02ca62bc9d24/Florida cops used IMSI catchers over 200 times without a warrant2014-03-05T15:46:27+00:00
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/03/stingray/
jmHarris is the leading maker of [IMSI catchers aka "stingrays"] in the U.S., and the ACLU has long suspected that the company has been loaning the devices to police departments throughout the state for product testing and promotional purposes. As the court document notes in the 2008 case, “the Tallahassee Police Department is not the owner of the equipment.”
The ACLU now suspects these police departments may have all signed non-disclosure agreements with the vendor and used the agreement to avoid disclosing their use of the equipment to courts. “The police seem to have interpreted the agreement to bar them even from revealing their use of Stingrays to judges, who we usually rely on to provide oversight of police investigations,” the ACLU writes.
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