Amazon has been selling a facial-recognition system to police, sparking fears that the technology will one day power mass surveillance. The technology, called Amazon Rekognition, can identify people's faces in digital images and video. Police in Oregon say the technology allows officers to identify suspects in minutes as opposed to two or three days. The Amazon technology also appears to be pretty inexpensive. In Oregon, it cost police about $400 to build a facial-recognition system that indexed 300,000 mugshots of former convicts.

Source: Fox News May 22, 2018 18:45 UTC