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Amazon bans police use of it’s Rekognition technology for 1 year.

Amazon Rekognition provides fast and accurate face search, allowing you to identify a person in a photo or video using private repository of face images. You can also verify identity by analyzing a face image against images you have stored for comparison. It was launched in 2016 and has been used by a number of United States government agencies, including the police as well as private entities.

Amazon says it wants to give Congress time to implement appropriate rules.