Amazon Pitched US Government on Facial Recognition Cameras to Track Immigrants

(ZHE) — Amazon Inc. met with officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in June as part of an attempt to market the company’s new facial recognition technology — which can identify people from surveillance footage using artificial technology, as revealed by internal emails obtained by the Project on Government Oversights and first published by The Daily Beast. Employees in Amazon Web Services cloud-computing division met […]