Members blasted the largely unregulated technology as inaccurate, invasive and having potentially chilling effects on Americans’ privacy and free expression rights. [The Technology 202: Nuns are leading the charge to pressure Amazon to get religion on facial recognition]The technology has faced intensifying pressure over its potential for misidentification and abuse. San Francisco last week became the first city in the United States to ban facial-recognition use by local police and city agencies. Local lawmakers in California and Massachusetts are considering similar measures. Not even Amazon, which has developed a system used by police called Rekognition, has escaped internal questions about the technology.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2019 17:22 UTC