Amazon’s public policy team is drafting legislation that would regulate the use of facial recognition technologies, but some privacy advocates think that’s a bad idea.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced the legislation-writing effort during an Alexa event in Seattle in late September. Bezos didn’t offer details, but he told the audience that “it makes a lot of sense” to regulate facial recognition tools.
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