[multibit]

> The tech firm had said it was aware of civil rights concerns but had not received any reports of law enforcement clients misusing its Rekognition tool.

This really depends on their definition of "misuse", which can be molded to suit their financial goals. Eventually reports of questionable law enforcement use will come in, and I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients. This area desperately needs regulation.

[dsfyu404ed]

> I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients.

Barret stopped selling to CA government agencies after CA banned "regular peasants" from owning Barret's flagship product.

That said, this situation is very different politically. People aren't going to stop using AWS en-masse because Amazon is helping enable the police state.

[Blackthorn]

Same for New York now that we can't own them there either. Nice to have someone stand up for us at least, as opposed to all those that will still happily sell to law enforcement.

[peteradio]

The anonymous report box was found to be emptying into an incinerator, the issue has been corrected we are unaware that any reports were incinerated.

[village-idiot]

They’ll just raise the bar to “well, no enforcement personnel went to jail, so we’re in the clear”