Digital Watch Newsletter, Issue 32
Digital Watch Newsletter, Issue 32
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Date
2018-06-30
Authors
Borg Psaila, Stephanie
Gavrilovic, Andrijana
Horejsova, Tereza
Kamberi, Arvin
Kurbalija, Jovan
Maciel, Marilia
Minovic, Adriana
Paque, Virginia
Perarnaud, Clement
Radunovic, Vladimir
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Geneva Internet Platform; DiploFoundation
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This month, several Amazon shareholders wrote to the company’s CEO expressing concerns over the selling of facial recognition software to US law enforcement agencies. The potential use of Rekognition could ‘violate civil and human rights’ and ‘unfairly and disproportionately target and surveil people of color, immigrants, and civil society organizations’. More developments on pages 4–5.