Amazon Met With ICE Officials to Market Its Facial Recognition Product


The prospect of the Trump administration using facial recognition to supercharge its deportation machine is very alarming indeed. So to find out what’s happening, we filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Wednesday demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release information relating to where and how it intends to use facial recognition as well as who it has purchased the technology from.


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Dr. Timothy Leary

Simple solution, don't buy anything from Amazon. If you buy something from a local store you can physically examine the merchandise before purchase. You can't do that over the internet. Remember a bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush. When Amazon goes out of business like Blockbuster did we can dance on its grave.


I’m not optimistic on the matter; but that is one dance I’d attend.


If you think Amazon will just "go out of business", you are SEVERELY underestimating the power and wealth the company has already accrued. They aren't going anywhere.



As a person who worked diligently on bringing democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq from 2006-13, it's clear to me that bureaucracies often don't follow through on the merits involved. Instead of winning the peace in those countries, we further divided them for our political purposes. ICE is doing the same thing regarding immigration, due to political demagoguery. They are being abused by Trump leadership to be the storm-troopers of neo-nationalists. An odd aspect of this occurred with the discussion when Trump idealized the Norwegians, then he whined why don't more people immigrate from there instead of "shithole" countries. And Norway is a Socialist Democratic country, along with Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and others -- with an enlightened populace that has a balanced understanding of things. But Trump contradicts this idea, when he compares mid-term democratic candidates with social democracy, akin to Venezuela. More lies, and we need to call-out the Republicans on this stupidity.


Well said sir!


Well said sir!


We can call out both parties on illegal aliens and the migrants that are coming to America. Both parties suck at doing their jobs they only worry about getting elected again. I am happy that Amazon is selling face recognition so that we can stop people from entering America illegally. All elected officials are worthless they should be working on getting our country back to being the best and let others countries take care of themselves. I am older Americans citizens female and a person of color.


" Both parties suck at doing their jobs"

Maybe. But it was that knucklehead Cruz who in 2013 shut down the government putting in jeopardy overseas operations, peoples lives on the ground, and my belief in the American system of dealing with war and peace time contractual obligations. Cruz's Republican shut-down was a feeble attempt to eliminate health care insurance for Americans. You may not want to address how to handle the circumstances where your government becomes cowardly, I certainly didn't; I left the overseas operations I was working on before our government was funded again -- there's no dealing with cretins. Conservatives are deplorables!

Member ACLU

Thank you for caring. Well said.


Yes both parties cannot gets together to work on our country policies. We have to many American criminals why do we need to take any illegal aliens which probably have a lot of criminals coming to America. America is be coming a shithole country with all the illegal aliens coming to America. Why not give all money that we as taxpayers spend it on veterans who are disabled and who are homeless


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